Heard: "Sylvester" pronounced...
Wilson Gray
hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Sun Sep 14 02:57:11 UTC 2014
"Sly Vester."
A connection with the use of "Sly" - in addition to "Syl" - as a nickname
for "Sylvester," perhaps?
Youneverknow.
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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
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