"Norval" ... How do *you* pronounce it?

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Fri Aug 28 06:31:04 UTC 2009


I got a note from Facebook telling me that Norval [Surname] had become
my Fb-friend. That reminded me of a grade-school classmate of mine
down home in Texas. His name was Norval Moore, pronounced
approximately [na:ve at l mo].

-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
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-Mark Twain

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