_Coke and Cowper, how pronounced_ (Vol. iv., p. 24.).--_Coke_ is by
lawyers generally pronounced like the article which feeds our
steam-engines; but the late Earl of Leicester was generally, in Norfolk
and elsewhere, called _Cook_. The presumption is, that _Cook_ was the
ancient sound given to the word _Coke_. _Cowper_ is a similar instance:
I believe it has always been called _Cooper_. In an old electioneering
squib by the late Lord John Townshend, _Cowper_ is made to rhyme to
_Trooper_. The passage alludes to an old county scandal, and I do not
therefore quote it.