Pronouncing drug names (w. note for Wilson)

[Laurence Horn]

At 4:37 PM -0500 1/30/08, Mark Mandel wrote:
>Ditto. My mnemonic is the pun "the three Liddell girls", somewhere in or
>about Carroll's oeuvre. (The poem about one lazy afternoon?... misquoting it
>here.)
>
>Larry interposed (while I was typing the above:
>
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>I remember being surprised to learn that the family name of Alice
>Liddell, of Alice in Wonderland fame, and therefore of her father
>Henry--Dean Liddell of Christ Church in Oxford, was pronounced
>"Little" and not "Lid-DELL" (I'm pretty sure I made the same wrong
>guess about the classical lexicographer), and that this explains some
>puns on the part of Dodgson/Carroll on the name.
>---
>
>Same wrong guess, same given name, same person.
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Liddell

Yeah, I had the nagging feeling after sending that message that the
two Liddells were related.  I guess the identity relation is a pretty
close one.

LH

>
>(Actually, I may have learned the correct pronunciation in my late teens, at
>St. John's College. I recall referring to the Intermediate Greek-English
>Lexicon rhymingly as "the middle Liddell-Scott".)
>
>m a m
>
>On Jan 30, 2008 4:17 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>    For several dekkids, I thought that the
>>  ['lIdl]-Scott dictionary was the [lI 'dEl]-Scott dictionary.
>>
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