CURIOSITIES OF PRONUNCIATION
tion of Fowey which 'puzzles your 'correspondent, Mr. King, • is an illustration of the fact that, often, what seems to be a corruption is actually a surviVal.
In a quotation from Hals, which appears in Mr. Norway's Highways and Byways in Devon and Cornwall, and in earlier -bookg, the name Is spelt ." Foy" and " FoweY " in the -Same •
passage, the people being referred to as " Foyens." In
• " The roll of the huge fleets of Edward the third before Calice " in Hakluyt (1589); the Milne appears as " FOwey," with the marginal alternative of" or Foy." A map of Cornwall made in 1680 and published in 1662, prepared from Norden's Travills; shows the name of the town as " Foye," the harbour Foyeluiven " and a Well at the source of the river "Foy -. Well." A later map gives the name as " Fowe," the- harbour
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