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For a newcomer to this List , This looks more of a "How to Speak English"
forum.
Looks very odd to see non technical stuff going across multiple threads in a
technical forum like this.
Thanks


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From: "Passin, Tom" <tpassin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2003 5:12 PM
Subject: RE: RE: [xsl] grouping by unique...


> [ Michael Kay]
>
> > > To my esteemed British correspondents: Could you please
> > > explain why the English name "Featherstone" is pronounced "Fanshaw"?
> >
> > I think you mean "Featherstonehaugh".
> >
> > If you were called that, how would you pronounce it?
> >
> > I don't know the explanation in this case. With place names, the usual
> > reason for a disconnect between the spelling and the pronunciation is
> > that the spelling evolved among those who could read and write, the
> > pronunciation among those who couldn't.
> >
>
> Well. here is the US in the state of Massachusetts, we have the city of
> Worcester, pronounced more or less as "Wooster".  I  have always assumed
> that that would be the pronuciation in England, too, but I have never
> heard it spoken by someone from there.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Tom P
>
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