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To: pax_et_bonum

They have weird ways. I had a cousin whose name was ‘Beauchamp’. It was pronounced ‘Beechum’. And the Italian name ‘Taliaferro’ wound up pronounced as ‘Tolliver’.

But according to them, we spell weirdly, so...

(My husband gets around the pronunciation issues surrounding the herb ‘basil’ by calling it ‘Mr. Rathbone’.)


71 posted on 03/12/2022 2:50:00 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Jamestown1630

Cholmondeley becomes Chumly. P. G. Wodehouse used to have fun making up names like Lord Blicester, or the Earl of Towcester.


77 posted on 03/12/2022 3:02:01 PM PST by HartleyMBaldwin
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