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- From: crawford@ben.dev.upenn.edu (Lauren L. Crawford)
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- Subject: Re: The Second Syllable of "Clinton"
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- Date: 25 Jan 93 20:21:42 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan24.091351.13915@cc.uow.edu.au> boon@cc.uow.edu.au (Boon Chye Lee) writes:
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- >Watching the inauguration ceremony of Bill Clinton on TV, I was
- >struck by how his name is pronounced over there in the US:
- >"Clin-n" as opposed to how it's pronounced here in Australia,
- >"Clin-tn".
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- And then there's how the truly cool folks in Philly say it -- "Clin-TONE!"
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