[Ads-l] The pronunciation of the surname, _Spann_

Fri Sep 9 18:53:23 UTC 2016

A colleague of mine by that name who is originally from Chicago pronounces it ‘span’.
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Kate Svoboda-Spanbock
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On Sep 8, 2016, at 10:15 PM, W Brewer <brewerwa at GMAIL.COM> wrote:

> Cf. Warren Spahn, with [ah].
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