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From: msb@sq.sq.com (Mark Brader)
Subject: Re: Name pronunciation
Message-ID: <1995Feb5.070756.21056@sq.sq.com>
Organization: SoftQuad Inc., Toronto, Canada
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Date: Sun, 5 Feb 95 07:07:56 GMT
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peter@tesla.newcastle.edu.au writes:
> My six-year-old son insists on giving his (and my) surname
> two different pronunciations, depending on whether he is speaking
> French or English.  Everyone else finds this strange; but to him
> the habit is so natural that we can't break him of it.

Brader's Law of Usenet: never post an article that claims that "everyone"
does something, for you will hear from those who don't.

Brader rhymes with "trader", when I'm speaking English.  However, I also
speak some French and enough German to reserve a hotel room -- and when
traveling in Europe, I have found that if I listen to the way native
speakers of those languages pronounce my name, and vary my own pronun-
ciation of it to match (well, try to match) theirs, then they'll spell it
correctly and have a better chance of actually finding those reservations.
-- 
Mark Brader                 (Douglas R.) Hofstadter's Law:
msb@sq.com                    "It always takes longer than you expect, even
SoftQuad Inc., Toronto         when you take into account Hofstadter's Law."

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