"Lehman"

[Laurence Horn]

At 2:31 PM -0400 9/15/08, Wilson Gray wrote:
>When I mentioned this "Leeman" to my wife as "weird," before she went
>to work this morning, she was taken mildly aback. She reminded me that
>two of her nieces, whose high-school graduations we had attended, had
>gone to Lake-Lehman ['liy.m at n] High School in Harvey's Lake (on the
>shore of "the largest man-made lake in Pennsylvania!"). She doubts
>that there's any connection to the banking family.
>
>Since the family members had no reason to mention the name of the high
>school, I had assumed, from the spelling on the programs, that its
>name was Lake-Lehman ['ley.m at n].
>
>-Wilson

Not to be confused with its traditional Suisse
romande and Scottish rivals, Lac Léman High and
Loch Lomond High respectively.

LH

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>On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 1:56 PM, Mark Mandel <thnidu at gmail.com> 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.
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>>  On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 12:37 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>  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
>>>
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