[Ads-l] how to say "Paul Krugman"
Galen Buttitta
satorarepotenetoperarotas3 at GMAIL.COM
Sun Nov 25 03:12:23 UTC 2018
The vowel in “Moog” is /o:/, isn’t it?
On Nov 24, 2018, at 21:21, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU> wrote:
>> On Nov 24, 2018, at 8:13 PM, Tom Zurinskas <truespel at HOTMAIL.COM> wrote:
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>> I heard Paul say his name on Facebook. Turns out the vowel in "Krug" is the same as in "crook" (no aspersions meant). So in truespel it would be spelled ~~Paul Kroogmin~~ as I heard him say his own name. Who knew.
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> Well, that’s the only way I’ve ever heard it pronounced, so I guess I knew. In principle, I suppose the first syllable could have been pronounced to rhyme with “plug” or with “Moog”; after all, Jack Klugman pronounced his name as /kl^gm at n/ rather than /klUgm at n/, but I’ve only ever heard it as /krUgm at n/.
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>> Tom Zurinskas,
>> Originally SWConn 20 yrs, college Tenn 3, work NJ 33, now FL 14.
>> truespel phonetics free converter and tutorials - http://truespel.com
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