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Re: CHAT: F.L.O.E.S.

From:And Rosta <a.rosta@...>
Date:Tuesday, February 24, 2004, 3:04
John Cowan:
> And Rosta scripsit: > > > I expect he got fed up of correcting > > mispronunciations of his name and acquiesced in its mispronounciation, > > just as I have done with mine for the last ten years or so, and as, > > So you are now tolerating /r\@Ust@/?
I would, with a cringe, if it came from an American. Since it is Brits rather than Americans that I overwhelming make the face to face acquaintance of, it is /'rQst@/ that I fairly sanguinely tolerate (& indeed introduce myself as, nowadays).
> What were you insisting on before?
/'rQSt@/. English pronunciation but not English grapheme--phoneme correspondence rules.
> I continue to insist on my /Au/ diphthong, unhistorical as it is, and > if anything my wife has become more fanatical than I am about it.
As I have said before, I have known a good few aw-Cowans, but never an ow-Cowan. Indeed, I would go so far as to assert that Cow-an is *the* pronunciation of the name in Britain. --And.

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