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[Arnold Zwicky]

On Sep 6, 2010, at 5:28 AM, Ben Zimmer wrote:

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> On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 8:07 AM, Charles C Doyle <cdoyle at uga.edu> wrote:
>>
>> Not the same topic, really, but this is still about vocalized (or "oralized") punctuation marks:
>>
>> One of my students insists that she attended high school with a girl who spelled her name
>> L--a and pronounced it "la dash ah" (the "dash" should appear as a solid line, probably).
>>
>> I shared the information about L--a with a friend who teaches in elementary school, and
>> she reported a similarly named student in her school:  K--a.
>
> I posted these links to Laura Wattenberg's three-part blog post last
> year, since "Ledasha" (+ variants) has come up here in the past:
>
> http://www.babynamewizard.com/archives/2009/10/ledasha-legends-and-race-part-one
> http://www.babynamewizard.com/archives/2009/10/ledasha-legends-and-race-part-two
> http://www.babynamewizard.com/archives/2009/10/ledasha-legends-and-race-part-three-of-three

meanwhile, although the reports have been washing in for some time now, there's still no actual documentation.

arnold

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