in reply to : "Andrew Jackson" <[log in to unmask]>
>To anyone who might know, is Jean pronounced in the English
>or the French fashion? This might be a silly question . . . I'm
>reminded though of my old music teacher at Bell Baxter, who
>confesed that, in his youth, he pronounced Goethe as though it
>were a single-syllable word rhyming approximately with ''loaf".
and
> There is a street, or avenue, in Chicago named after Goethe - the
> favoured pronunciation of certain Chicago bus drivers of my
> acquaintance, when approaching the bus-stop there, would be to rhyme
it with 'oath'.
>
which I posted in reply
On Wed, 12 Jul 2000 23:12:01 -0400
"Frederick Pollack <[log in to unmask]>wrote
>Things have disintegrated since my childhood in Chicago, when the bus I
>took to piano lessons used to pass that street all the time and the
>driver would yell out two syllables, second w/ apical th and long e.
not sure I know what an 'apical th' is, exactly, but would that be
'goatee'?
(The Sorrows of Young Werther as a Bildungsroman for slackers...)
Dave Lovely
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