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From: msb@sq.sq.com (Mark Brader)
Subject: Re: Name pronunciation
Message-ID: <1995Feb8.070520.23034@sq.sq.com>
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Date: Wed, 8 Feb 95 07:05:20 GMT
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> > As a matter of intentional discourtesy, with Americans whose names end
> > in "-stein", I always make at least one attempt to pronounce it like a
> > beer "stein" ...
> 
> Interesting!  I always pronounce my name as ending in stein (as in beer
> stein) ...

For further information, please see the 1974 movie Young Frankenstein. :-)
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