Pontius "Pie Late"

[Joel S. Berson]

At 4/7/2007 10:52 AM, Jon L wrote:
>As I understand it, the exercise was created by a man whose surname
>was/ is pronounced in English as  / paI'lati /.  Not connected with Pontius.

So in either case "Pilates" is incorrect? It should be either
"Pilate's" [exercises] (if he didn't spell his name with an "s") or
"Pilates'" (if he did)!  :-)

Joel

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