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Thread #132499 Message #4173942
Posted By: Steve Shaw
06-Jun-23 - 04:53 AM
Thread Name: BS: Language Pet Peeves
Subject: RE: BS: Language Pet Peeves
Exactly. That's the press and the media. As I said, to the people around him he was always just Lenny. With a y. Remember when the papers of lesser repute referred to Madeleine McCann as Maddie, a name never used by the people around her?
It sounds a bit twee calling him Lenny, I admit, and when I'm talking about him I'd probably just call him Bernstein. But calling him by a name that no-one around him ever used doesn't sit well with me..