Posted by John Hosking on 01/08/08 09:19

Dylan Parry wrote:
> Blinky the Shark wrote:
>
>> Yeah? Well, if you're so smart <g>, how do you pronounce Dylan Parry's
>> last name? Pair-ee or par-ee?
>
> Neither - it's pa-ree. And you are probably all mispronouncing my first
> name incorrectly too. If I wanted too be picky, you should be saying it
> as dull-an but you are probably all thinking it's dill-un.

Since we're already OT: In the fifth grade (U.S.), when I was 9-10 years
old, our teacher, who was kind of young and hip, asked us orally once if
we had heard of <bahb DILL-en>, the singer. I was rather precocious and
full of myself that year, so I piped right up (repeatedly, as I dread to
recall :-( ) with the fascinating info that I hadn't heard of him, but I
had heard of <bahb DYE-len>.

Okay, so I'd seen Bob Dylan's name in writing, but nobody'd ever told me
how it was pronounced.


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John
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