Nicholas Bodley wrote:

>
> 2003-01-20 21:20:44, "Peter T. Daniels"
> <grammatim@...> wrote:
>
> >Nicholas Bodley wrote:
> >
> >> The millenium began 1 Jan. 2000
> >> The millennium began 1 Jan. 2001
> >
> >Now _that_'s a subtle and clever observation! And quite on
> topic.
>
> Your compliment is much appreciated. Thank you!
>
> [OT]
> I found it both sad and fascinating that the Millenium (sic)
> Hotel in NYC went into business with a misspelled name.

Perhaps they drove Mazda Millenias. And sometimes mentioned Atilla the
Hun.

> In all, I have become aware of about six or seven companies
> that went into business with misspelled names, not counting
> the numerous small businesses on Waverley Oaks Road in
> Waltham; the latter tend to spell their company names
> "Waverly".

Aren't the two spellings both in common use? There's a <-ly> in
Manhattan.

> One (of the six or so) was funny: The intent was to be
> Megiddo Enterprises, but it came out as Meggido, which could
> be pronounced "meggy-doo".

You have examples of <-do> pronounced /duw/?
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Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...