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What's the proper pronunciation for that?

Cow - Yed

Westhoughton people are also called Howfeners just for added confusion.
It all stems back to some Westhoughton Folklore when a local farmer had bought a new 5-bar gate and his bull managed to get its head stuck in it
Rather than lose his money on the gate, they cut the cow's head off instead!

It's immortalised in numerous things around the town. There's a cracking wood carving above the bar in the Waggon and Horses.
 
Cow - Yed

Westhoughton people are also called Howfeners just for added confusion.
It all stems back to some Westhoughton Folklore when a local farmer had bought a new 5-bar gate and his bull managed to get its head stuck in it
Rather than lose his money on the gate, they cut the cow's head off instead!

It's immortalised in numerous things around the town. There's a cracking wood carving above the bar in the Waggon and Horses.
Is that pronounced Howtoners?
 
Cow - Yed

Westhoughton people are also called Howfeners just for added confusion.
It all stems back to some Westhoughton Folklore when a local farmer had bought a new 5-bar gate and his bull managed to get its head stuck in it
Rather than lose his money on the gate, they cut the cow's head off instead!

It's immortalised in numerous things around the town. There's a cracking wood carving above the bar in the Waggon and Horses.
stuart maconie mentions this in his last book, and my first thought when reading it was THATs where that poster on here gets his name from... :lol:
 
Is that pronounced Howtoners?

For added confusion, no it is now. "Keaw" and indeed "yed" are old Lancashire spellings.
How-fen-er is pronounced like that.

Westhoughton is usually pronounced "West-orton" as people tend to drop the H. It does sometimes end up being split like "West Houghton" which when pronounced like that sounds like you're over doing it a bit.

It's also a long way from Houghton(le-Spring) near you.
stuart maconie mentions this in his last book, and my first thought when reading it was THATs where that poster on here gets his name from... :lol:

As folklore goes, it's pretty good. Up there with Pollard and the Boar if you're familiar with that one
 

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