> What's in a name? Probably nothing until you know the background. When Pam > (not pronounced Palm) and I were on our walking tour in England we had a > lot of trouble with the names and our insistence on pronouncing every > written syllable clearly identified us as North Americans. Someone wrote me off-line in defense of Southerners and my comment about how they would pronounced Sam said: <<The "proper" pronounciation of "Sam" is "SSSSSsss-aiu-uuuuuuu-MMmmm-ss" Rule number one! Always add an "S" whether a word needs it or not! Four syllables! Damned! That's almost a whole sentence!>> Looking at John Winters comment above, I wonder about the place word Cholmondeley, which is pronounced Chumley over there. A Southerner would probably have to stop for lunch before he finished saying it. :-) ralph diaz -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Ralph Diaz . . . Folding Kayaker newsletter PO Box 0754, New York, NY 10024 Tel: 212-724-5069; E-mail: rdiaz_at_ix.netcom.com "Where's your sea kayak?"----"It's in the bag." ----------------------------------------------------------------------- *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ ***************************************************************************Received on Thu Jan 07 1999 - 07:19:50 PST
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