Fwd: Stress on final syllable of names
Arnold Zwicky
zwicky at CSLI.STANFORD.EDU
Mon Sep 25 03:04:14 UTC 2000
walt's "like a wolf and a ram" is nice, and, i assume, effective.
ZWICKY is troublesome. if i can't be "alexander adams" and have
to give my real name, i now say "it's WICK with a Z in front and
a Y at the end", which seems to work.
i much prefer the long, but more entertaining,
Z as in ZEBRA;
W as in WATER BUFFALO;
I as in IBEX;
C as in COW;
K as in KUDU;
Y as in YAK.
but few people have the patience to sit through this, and ibexes
and kudus are not very well known.
arnold (zwicky at csli.stanford.edu)
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