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Subject:	Re: Any other less common pronunciations?
Author:	Anneza (Authenticated as Anneza)
Date:	May 31, 2007 at 4:32:27 AM
Reply to:	Any other less common pronunciations? by Kate

Not now, I don't think. But in the eighteenth century, if I remember, the -th- in Dorothy was pronounced like the Th in Thomas ... so she'd have been Dorotty. Then with the spread of literacy, people started pronouncing the letters they saw, instead of doing what they heard older people do ... probably because Dorothy was never as popular a name as Thomas, so they weren't so accustomed to it.

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Messages in this thread:

Ralph - RALF or RAYF - Kate May 24 2007, 9:56:12 AM
- Re: Ralph - RALF or RAYF - Elea May 25 2007, 3:19:07 PM
  - Re: Ralph - RALF or RAYF - Lauren B May 30 2007, 5:04:13 AM
  - Sophia pronounced "so-FYE-a." Really? - Kate May 29 2007, 11:35:03 AM
    - Any other less common pronunciations? - Kate May 30 2007, 2:37:03 PM
      - Re: Any other less common pronunciations? - Anneza May 31 2007, 4:32:27 AM
    - Re: Sophia pronounced "so-FYE-a." Really? - Cera May 30 2007, 12:14:34 PM
    - Re: Sophia pronounced "so-FYE-a." Really? - Anneza May 29 2007, 10:46:22 PM
    - Yeah, I know one 'Sofia' who pronounces is like that. nt - Maridawn May 29 2007, 4:37:02 PM
- Re: Ralph - RALF or RAYF - Anneza May 24 2007, 10:59:54 PM
- Re: Ralph - RALF or RAYF - Maridawn May 24 2007, 4:33:25 PM
  - Ralph Fiennes. :-) nt - Miranda May 25 2007, 9:43:15 PM
    - that's the one! nt - Maridawn May 26 2007, 9:12:42 AM

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