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Thread #47186   Message #703615
Posted By: Fortunato
03-May-02 - 10:45 AM
Thread Name: BS: Wales, its enough to make you wail.
Subject: RE: BS: Wales, its enough to make you wail.
Hello Greg.

Having become almost apolitical as I have grown older I prefer Poe's pronouciation:

For chu /nah toe!

I wasn't kidding about finding Welsh pronounciation intimadating. I feel it is the bare minimum of courtesy to get a person's name right. Where I live here in Silver Spring MD we have representatives from EVERY country in the world. I enjoy knowing their names and if possible being able to greet them in their native language. I hope I didn't sound tongue-in-cheek. I was a school teacher once upon a time and I remember it taking an entire semester for me to learn to say correctly the name of a girl from Reykjavik. But I learned it.