On: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 19:15:04 +0100
"Andrew Jackson" <[log in to unmask]>wrote
>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".
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'.
Dave Lovely
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