Heard: "Sylvester" pronounced...

[Wilson Gray]

"Sly Vester."

A connection with the use of "Sly" - in addition to "Syl" - as a nickname
for "Sylvester," perhaps?

Youneverknow.
-- 
-Wilson
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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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