Pronouncing your own name eccentrically isn’t always a sign of snobbery

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All my life I have been battling with the problem of whether to pronounce my surname with an “ow” (as in trowel); or with an “oh” (as in “troll”). Powell or Pole, that is the question. So many assumptions about class and politics ride on that single...

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