"Lehman"

[Matthew Gordon]

I just had a student paper that included the phrase "to put it in Lehman's
terms". And, no, it was not a mispelled reference to the Indo-Europeanist
W.P. Lehmann.


On 9/15/08 11:37 AM, "Wilson Gray" <hwgray at GMAIL.COM> wrote:

> As a consequence of the failure of the investment bank, Lehman
> Brothers, I've discovered just a few hours ago, that this surname,
> _Lehman_, is routinely pronounced as though spelled "Leeman," in at
> least some locales outside of the greater Saint Louis metropolitan
> area. In Saint Louis, _Lehman_ is a well-known local surname routinely
> pronounced as though spelled "Layman."
>
> -Wilson
> --
> All say, "How hard it is that we have to die"---a strange complaint to
> come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
> -----
> -Mark Twain
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