[Sca-cooks] pronunciations
Philip & Susan Troy
troy at asan.com
Wed Jun 26 07:15:20 PDT 2002
Also sprach Siegfried Heydrich:
> Of course, I am reminded of the local NPR announcer who once introduced
>a 'Ragtime by Scott Joh-plahn'. After it was over (and, I suspect, the
>recipient of many amused phone calls), he rather ruefully admitted it was
>actually Scott Joplin . . .
Oh, like Claudette Something-or-other-Francophonic, who changed her
name to Claudette Colbert [that's COLL-bert] to sound more American,
only to have later film historians mispronounce her name Claudette
Cole-BEHR...
...and then she set the U.S.'s immigration policy for a fairish
while, after a White House party in the REE-gan years...
Adamantius
--
"No one who cannot rejoice in the discovery of his own mistakes
deserves to be called a scholar."
-DONALD FOSTER
More information about the Sca-cooks
mailing list