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Thread #107674   Message #2236341
Posted By: Don Firth
14-Jan-08 - 03:17 PM
Thread Name: MacPherson [how to pronounce?]
Subject: RE: MacPherson [how to pronounce?]
PoppaGator, I probably should have put a disclaimer in my comments about the keyboard designer, or maybe not mentioned him specifically. I've always heard people referring to the keyboard as "DVOR-ack," but I've actually never heard him say his name (and since he's dead now, it's too late to ask him). But I do know that many American-born descendents of expatriate Czechs use the anglicized pronunciation. And according to Wikipedia, he was distantly related to the composer, but did use a more anglicized pronunciation of the name.

Surprise! I just learned that he was an educational psychology professor at the University of Washington. But he was there before my time.

Tap tap tap, peck peck peck.

Don Firth