North-brook-end (Cambridgeshire) Nobacken. Mountnessing (Essex) Moneyseen. Brookhampton (Glostershire) Brockington. Barnstaple Barum. Crediton Kirton. Penrith Perith. Brougham Broome. Birmingham Brummagem. It is hardly worth while to mention the larger tribe of contractions, such as Alsford for Alresford, Wilsden for Willesden, Harfordwest for Haverfordwest; nor the class of derivations from the Roman Castrum, as Uxeter for Uttoxeter, Toster for Towcester, and the like. The railroads are correcting these grosser errors wherever they fall in with them. I remember a few years ago, being at Gloster, and intending to take the train to _Cisiter_, as I had always called it. "Oh!" said the porter, with quite the air of a _Lingo_, "you mean _Ci-ren-cester_." But I believe the good folks of the neighbourhood still stick to _Aberga'ny_ and _Cisiter_. P. M. M.'s appeal to your Scotch and Irish correspondents will I think produce little. In Scotland, names are generally pronounced as written, with a few exceptions, such as _Enbro'_ and _Lithgow_, and perhaps a few others: but in Ireland I do not remember a single instance of the corruption of a name; though certainly the Irish might be forgiven if they had contracted or mollified such names as _Drumcullagher_, _Ballaghaddireen_, _Moatagreenoque_, and _Tamnaughtfinlaggan_. The English are, I believe, the only people who habitually _clip_ proper names of persons or places, but I think it is also the only language in which the spelling of words does not afford a general guide for their pronunciation. No other language that I know anything of can afford such anomalies as are to be found, for instance, in _rough_, _cough_, _lough_, _plough_, _dough_, _through_, &c. &c. C. The following are such names of places as have come within my observation:-- Spelling. Pronunciation. Happisburgh Ha'sboro'. Wormegay Rungay. Sechehithe Setchey. Wiggenhall St. Mary _Magdalen_.[9] Maudlin. Babingley Beverley. Methwold Muell. Northwold Nordell. Hockwold cum Wilton Hockold-Wilts. [Footnote 9: By the last word this place is named to distinguish it from others beginning with the word "Wiggenhall."] J. N. C.