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

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@/?  What were you insisting on before?
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.

> say, Italoamericans with <gli> in their names do).
Of course, by the second generation it is no longer a matter of
non-insistence, but of adoption.  But I am pleased to state that most
of the American Taliaferros (who descend, in the main, from a single
Tagliaferro ancestor) continue to insist on "Tolliver" (rhotic or not,
as the case may be), and many of the Enroughtys (those who did not inherit
[In'rVfti]) on "Darby".

> And while Kovacs ends in /ks/,
Hence the name of the first 32-bit minicomputer acquired by the University of
California at Berkeley many years ago, Ernie Co-VAX (or just Ernie).

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