Is it Orphington or Orpington?

[Pinky]

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[BrattishTaz]

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Good one!

 

[AinaWGSD]

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For the same reason that people spell "hampsters" and "german sheppard/shephard/sheperd/etc." It's a matter of phonetics, then people see other people spelling it that way and they think that's how it should be spelled so the misspelling perpetuates.

 

[soukilee93]

I think the H comes from the way some folks pronounce the word.

"Orf-ing-tun", instead of "Or-Ping-tun". The P is pronounced softly instead of with a hard accent.

So then people start spelling it O-r-p-h-i-n-g-t-o-n to try and make sense of the F sound.

Maybe?

I think you are probably right Jeremy. It drives me nuts though to hear it mispronounced and see it misspelled!!

The Orpington name actually came from the family that started the breed.