Re: Adopting a plural

H. S. Teoh scripsit:

> My Greek prof tried that on somebody once, and he got some rather
> strange looks. :-) But then again, he is known for things like
> pronouncing "Darius" as [d@"raij@s] because that's how the Greek name
> is accented.
Some, though not all, of the anglophones whose first name is "Darius"
pronounce it so.  Isaac Asimov's fictional writer/detective Darius
Just (based on Harlan Ellison) explains in the opening pages of
_Murder at the ABA_ how tired he is of people punning his name into
"Dry as Dust".

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