"Lehman"

[Tom Zurinskas]

How does one perceive tradstreeng "ey" is pronounced.
>From the truespel book 4 database 80% of the words in text have the letter string "ey" pronounced as long a ~ae.

sound   count   %       top word        truespel
~ae     96,877   81     they    ~thae
~ee     11,098   9      key     ~kee
~iez    9,442    8      eyes    ~iez
~eey    2,786    2      beyond  ~beeyyaand
        120,203  100



Tom Zurinskas, USA - CT20, TN3, NJ33, FL5+
See truespel.com - and the 4 truespel books plus "Occasional Poems" at authorhouse.com.

> Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2008 14:51:29 -0400
> From: Berson at ATT.NET
> Subject: Re: "Lehman"
> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
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> Poster: "Joel S. Berson"
> Subject: Re: "Lehman"
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> At 9/15/2008 02:30 PM, Laurence Horn wrote:
>>>At 9/15/2008 01:56 PM, Mark Mandel wrote:
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>>>>Also generally /'ley.m at n/ in the NYC area. AFAIK the /'liy.m at n/ pron is
>>>>restricted to this firm, and presumably (though not certainly) the family
>>>>that founded it.
>>>
>>>How did the outstandingly liberal, German Jewish New York Governor
>>>and Senator, Herbert H. Lehman, a member of the banking family and in
>>>his pre-political years a member of the firm, pronounce his name?
>>I'm pretty sure it was /leym at n/, as in the eponymous college within
>>the CUNY system, although come to think of it I've heard that both
>>ways.
>
> That's my recollection too. Perhaps after he left the banking firm
> in 1929 he decided he was no longer compelled to Anglicize his name,
> as perhaps the founders had done.
>
> Joel
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