Keynes (pronunciation)

The name Keynes has two uses currently.

• It is found in a number of place-names, such as Milton Keynes. In these, it is pronounced with a long '-i-' to rhyme with 'means' and 'scenes': IPA: /kiːnz/. Horsted Keynes ia an exception: it uses the prerdominant familypronunciation below.
  • ('Keynes as an element in a place-name indicates previous ownership in the years after the Norman Conquest of the place by a member of one of the families variously written de Kaines, de Kaynes, de Cahaignes, Cahagnes [a place in Normandy], de Keynes etc.)
• Modern representatives of these families mostly write themselves Keynes, and pronounce it as a homophone of 'canes',rhyming it with 'planes' and 'Danes':IPA: /keɪnz/.

Milton Keynes (Bucks) Kaynes was added to indicate the Norman lord of the manor, Lucas de Kaynes, from the de Cahaignes family, who held the manor in 1221

Somerford Keynes (Glos.). Manorial affix from the de Kaynes family, here in the 13th...

Horsted Keynes (W. Sussex). Manorial affix from its possession by William de Cahainges in 1086

Middeltone Kaynes 1227. Manorial affix from the de Cahaignes family, here from the 12th cent. ([[Mills, 2011)

Coombe Keynes (Dorset). Manorial addition from the de Cahaignes family, here in the 12th...

Ashton Keynes (|Wilts). Manorial affix from the de Keynes family, here from the 13th cent.

Poole Keynes (Glos.)