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--- Ken Gebhart  wrote:
> My two cents worth is that you should pronounce the name
> exactly the way it is written in English.  After all, the people
> in St. Cloud Minnesota don't say San Clood, nor would a Frenchman
> even understand your American pronunciation of rendezvous (or at
> least he would turn up his nose).
>

Yes, I agree it makes less difference than the oblateness of the Earth,
but it is nice to know how the man pronounced his own name.  My name in
its original German, Schr?der, is pronounced "shrer-dah".  In the part
of the US where I was born, it was "shray-der", but when I moved south,
it became "shro-der" via the vox populi.  So right here in America my
brother and I have different surnames.

> By the way, I understand the whole name is Adolphe-Laurent-
> Anatole-Marcq de Blonde de St. Hilaire

An interesting tidbit I shall also use in class.  My attempt to
pronounce that will give needed comic relief.

Something I've wondered about: with the Winter Olympics coming up and
"Torino" raised to international prominence, are our Anglican cousins
sticking with "Turin" or going along with the "correct" Torino?  But
that's off-topic.

-Jeff Schroeder
Gulf Breeze, Florida
30?23.4'N   87?05.7'W


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