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The Lancashire dialect reverses the "u" sounds in "put" and "putt." A Lancastrian gave a lecture to a large mixed class on the Antarctic expedition led by Sir Vivian Fuchs. He called him Fucks throughout. A colleague remonstrated after the lecture: "You know, his name is Fuchs." "Oh yes; but I didn't like to say it with all those ladies present."

--J.E.Littlewood, "A Mathematician's Miscellany"

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