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On Wed, 25 Jan 2006 17:41:49 -0500, Mark E. Shoulson <mark@...> wrote:

> A student I was teaching the other year told me of someone spelling out
> the name "Swey" (presumably a contrived example): "S as in sea, W as in
> why, E as in eye, Y as in you." Say it aloud: the example words are all
> other letters.

Well, I still say the initial aspirant in "why"; I don't say "wye". It
seems that that aspirant is disappearing, though.

My childhood family's favorite was "ghoti", pronounced "fish".

One delightful document is the BBC guide to pronunciation of various
names. One rather-good example that's not literal is "Cholmondeley".

It might be appropriate to mention again that many people here in the USA,
most or all of whom are presumably native English speakers, cannot spell
correctly the names "Murray" and "Swain" when they hear them, nor can
they pronounce them correctly when they read them. Peolpe with those
surnames have told me that.

(A friend with whom I often speak, very intelligent on the whole, stumbles
embarrassingly over "Ubuntu".)

Regards,

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Nicholas Bodley /*|*\ Waltham, Mass. (Not "MA")
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