Before the shift house was pronounced "hoose" {it still is in Scotland}, mode was pronounced "mood," and home rhymed with "gloom," which is why Domesday Book is pronounced and sometimes called Doomsday. {The word has nothing to do with the modern word doom, incidentally. It is related to the domes- in domestic.}
( Bill Bryson )
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