how do you pronounce " pulitzer prize "

[Laurence Horn]

At 7:59 PM -0500 2/1/01, sagehen wrote:
>  >Peter R. writes:
>  >You're right. Brer Pulitzer is alleged to have pointed to his nose and
>>said to his interlocutor, "Pull it, sir!" in response to the query about
>>his name.
><><><><>
>This story has a funny smell.  I suspect a contemporary insult perhaps
>invented by a rival journalist.  But maybe I only feel that way since I say
>"Pewlitzer," as most people did 50 years ago. Happy to know that Jane has
>been hearing it.  [Wonder if Juan Williams also says "cewlinary," as I do;
>that one seems to have bit the dust, too.]
>A.Murie

They don't necessarily pattern together.  I've always been a
"pull-it-sir" but "kew-linary" speaker, and like dInIs I would find
it impossible to give up the former after my first encounter with the
"pullet surprise" (courtesy of Fromkin & Rodman, first edition).

larry