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- Message-ID: <9212230127.AA03463@pizzabox.demon.co.uk>
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- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 01:27:48 GMT
- Sender: English Language Discussion Group <WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu>
- From: Graham Toal <gtoal@PIZZABOX.DEMON.CO.UK>
- Subject: Re: What's in a name?
- Comments: To: WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu
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- :My sons' father wanted to call his firstborn Peter. I resisted vehemently and
- :finally got my choice of Christopher. In Uneducated Aussie English, '-er' is
- :often 'schwa' and 'th' is reduced to 't'; the vowels in my surname also become
- :an unstressed syllable.... so it was bad enough for me to have to put up with
- :being called 'Carol in bed' without doing that to my son. :-(
-
- I don't get it. What is your surname anyway? Have you ever told us? (It
- isn't in your headers)
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- G
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