# Name pronunciation: "Townshend"

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-pronunciation-townshend/410112>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [July 1, 2007, 9:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-pronunciation-townshend/410112 "2007-07-01T09:40:03Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Kal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9de053/32.png) [@Kal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kal)\
**Post date:** [July 2, 2007, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-pronunciation-townshend/410112/21 "2007-07-02T18:17:05Z")

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We only do that because it’s so much fun listening to foreign types try to pronounce our words. My all time favourite is Loughborough pronounced as ‘looga bor rooga’.

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**Author:** ![David\_Simmons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9de053/32.png) [@David\_Simmons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/David_Simmons)\
**Post date:** [July 2, 2007, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-pronunciation-townshend/410112/22 "2007-07-02T18:25:22Z")

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[QUOTE=Kal]  
We only do that because it’s so much fun listening to foreign types try to pronounce our words. My all time favourite is Loughborough pronounced as ‘looga bor rooga’.  
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That’s just plain vicious. 🙂

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**Author:** ![Szlater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/90ced4/32.png) [@Szlater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Szlater)\
**Post date:** [July 2, 2007, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-pronunciation-townshend/410112/23 "2007-07-02T18:51:54Z")

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[QUOTE=Kal]  
We only do that because it’s so much fun listening to foreign types try to pronounce our words. My all time favourite is Loughborough pronounced as ‘looga bor rooga’.  
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I hope that something internationally news worthy happens in Gorsafawddacha’idraigodanheddogleddollônpenrhynareurdraethceredigion in Wales.

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**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\
**Post date:** [July 2, 2007, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-pronunciation-townshend/410112/24 "2007-07-02T18:56:25Z")

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[QUOTE=Szlater]  
Do they not get along?

I thought that the only reason Townshend was still touring with The Who was because the other bandmembers needed the money even though he doesn’t because he gets tonnes of royalties.  
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Two of the original four (Moon, Entwhistle) have passed away and I’m pretty sure Daltrey doesn’t need the money (I think he owns a salmon farm, for example.)

I think they just love playing (and they’re still worth listening to!)

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**Author:** ![David\_Simmons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9de053/32.png) [@David\_Simmons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/David_Simmons)\
**Post date:** [July 2, 2007, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-pronunciation-townshend/410112/25 "2007-07-02T22:17:09Z")

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Edited as a duplicate

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**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2007, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-pronunciation-townshend/410112/26 "2007-07-03T01:27:03Z")

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Ok, after my earlier smart-ass response, I pulled out my copy of _Scoop_. He introduces the first track, _So Sad About Us_ as “…a valuable Pete Towns-end recording.”

He pronounces it the same way, though not as distinctly, in the infamous [Smothers Brothers clip](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nr81olQ1ibk).

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