[Sca-cooks] An announcement from the erstwhile 'Lainie

[Laura C. Minnick]

S CLEMENGER wrote:
> Crap...how does one pronounce that? And how does one turn it into a nickname? I"m doooomed! I can't even remember to call you "Laura."
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> --Maire, who'd change hers, too, if she could...
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Liutgard is  L(y)oot-gard, and having consulted modern authorities have 
been given to understand that the best approximation (this being 
something more than 1200 years later) of Luxeuil in 
Merovingina/Carolingina mouths would be Lucks-oy(uh), with the last 
syllable sort of held back.

And I would prefer, if you will, that Liutgard not be minimized with a 
diminuitive form, especially since there does not appear to be one.

Until May,
'Lainie

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