COB-H

My Grandad, Francis Maguire was a Carpenter and travelled around Ireland working in Shipyards as well as Furniture Makers, Shop fitters. In the early 20th Century he followed the work, the rest of the family stayed in Kilkenny. One of the shipyards he worked in was Haulbowlin near Cobh, Co Cork. Cobh has along association with ocean liners especially and the little Port has many connections with the Titanic, The Lusitania and other Liners. Grandad actually worked on the Titanic and another of his stories was that the British were unable to pronounce the word Cobh. Phonetically the 'b' is not used so its sounds like 'cove'.
However in England its always been Cob, H, as in corn on the COB with a heich at the end. During WWII the little town of YYpres in Belgium was unpronounable to many Soldiers so the town was renamed as ''Wipers'' the proper pronounciation sounding something like 'Yeep' Not of that I speak the "queens english'' myself. Apologies as well for any wrong spellings, incorrect use of english or grammar here as sometimes as we say in Dublin, I just can't be 'arsed"