[Ads-l] "Downsight"

[Joel S. Berson]

At 12/29/2014 01:34 PM, Laurence Horn wrote:
>I've never known a "Dai[s]y' and if I heard one I'd probably figure 
>it was a "Dacey".

Not even Dacey Duck?  (Unlike many other non-American/British/etc. 
persons, Wikipedia does not suggest a pronunciation. of her name.)

Joel 

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