how do you pronounce " pulitzer prize "

[Beverly Flanigan]

At 09:13 PM 2/1/01 -0500, you wrote:
>On Thu, 1 Feb 2001 18:38:39 -0600 Mark Odegard <markodegard at HOTMAIL.COM>
>writes:
> > It's Joseph pull-it-sir, but the PEW-lits-ur/PUH-lutz-ur prize, just
> > as it's
> > Andrew Car-NEG-ghee, but CAR-nuh-ghee Hall. Or even, Mr. F.D.
> > Roz-veldt, but
> > President Row-zuh-veldt.
>
>The problem sometimes arises with people who use two different
>pronounciations of their own names. For example Colin Powell. Is it
>Coe-lin or Coll-in? Well, it's both. His family used Coll-in, but when he
>got out into the world he found Coe-lin more comfortable.
>
>I am particularly aware of this. I was raised as Can'-bell. When I left
>the area, I found that the more common pronunciation was Cam-bull. Now
>that I have moved back after three decades, I don't know who I am.
>
>D

If you were a spelling pronunciation addict like my mother, you'd be Camp-bell!

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