Fwd: Stress on final syllable of names

[Arnold Zwicky]

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)