"Lehman"

[Laurence Horn]

>At 9/15/2008 01:56 PM, Mark Mandel wrote:
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>>Also generally /'ley.m at n/ in the NYC area. AFAIK the /'liy.m at n/ pron is
>>restricted to this firm, and presumably (though not certainly) the family
>>that founded it.
>
>How did the outstandingly liberal, German Jewish New York Governor
>and Senator, Herbert H. Lehman, a member of the banking family and in
>his pre-political years a member of the firm, pronounce his name?
>
I'm pretty sure it was /leym at n/, as in the eponymous college within
the CUNY system, although come to think of it I've heard that both
ways.

LH

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