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- From: clever@sequent.com (Cathy Cleverley)
- Subject: Re: How Does your Name Sound?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.225318.11204@torsqnt.tor.sequent.com>
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- Organization: Sequent Computer Systems (Canada) Ltd.
- References: <16533@auspex-gw.auspex.com> <1993Jan26.040340.28921@Virginia.EDU> <C1JIA9.ACA@panix.com> <1k8535INNl33@lynx.unm.edu>
- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 22:53:18 GMT
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- blowfish@carina.unm.edu (rON.) writes:
-
- >In article <C1JIA9.ACA@panix.com> sethb@panix.com (Seth Breidbart) writes:
- >>In article <1993Jan26.040340.28921@Virginia.EDU> llk4k@Virginia.EDU ("Lori Karalow") writes:
- >>>Okay, my turn, see if you can pronounce my last name......
- >>Now try spelling mine. (Have someone read you the header while you
- >>write it down. A majority of people get it wrong.)
-
- >Now y'all have an idea why I don't use my last name in the header. I just got
- >tired of people saughtering 'Rosul' (pronounced, btw 'row-sull' (last syllable
- >rhymes with 'gull')).
- >(actually, if you want to get technical, its pronounciation (non-anglicized)
- >is 'Roe-Shul'. Its means 'The Red' for the curious, and is Romanian in origin)
- >Just in case anybody really was curious :)
- >r.
-
- Try having Cleverley (pronounced the way it is spelt). I must admit I
- married into the name and kept it when I ditched him. I like how
- Cathy Cleverley rolls off the tongue; (my maiden name was Houlton).
- But I do get tired of the mis-pronounciations, misspellings and the
- feeble word plays.
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