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Annette Rubery's avatar

My husband’s surname is Bratby which gets mangled surprisingly frequently to Bradbury and Bradley. It reminded me too of the Imogen/Innogen controversy in Cymbeline. So interesting, thanks!

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Jem's avatar

Thanks for this, Adam - I sympathise! We are Wikeley pronounced Like-ly, but most people go for "Wik-er-ley" if they haven't heard better, and the more the world becomes text based the harder it becomes to hold the line. The original spelling was probably Wykeley. I wonder if there's something going on here with accents and vowel shifts... (Wykeley's/Wikeley is originally a midlands name).

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