"Lehman"

[Laurence Horn]

At 12:50 PM -0500 9/15/08, Matthew Gordon wrote:
>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.

That's wonderful.  We used to have a character who regularly attended
our departmental colloquia and whom we referred to as "Mr. Lehman"
because he invariably began his (often incoherent) questions by
saying "I'm just a layman, but..."  Nice to see our Mr. Lehman (no
relation to Winfred *or* the Wall Street brothers) is apparently
alive and well...

LH

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>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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