Wolfe's brilliance or my denseness?

Jeff Wilson · 24 May 2011, 15:50 · from 2011-May.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at io.com (Jeff Wilson)
Date: Tue, 24 May 2011 10:50:45 -0500
Subject: (urth) Wolfe's brilliance or my denseness?
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On 5/24/2011 7:48 AM, Lee Berman wrote:
>
>
> Antonio Pedro Marques: my instictive reading of Dorcas was
>> DAWRK-us (gave up on IPA), possibly not that far from the
>> AmE pronunciation,but not being acquainted with the name I
>> switfly considered door-KAZZ, seeing as there was a guy
>> nearby looking for a KAZZ.
>
> Yes, that is to my point. An AmE speaker seeing the name "Cas" even if he/she
> knows it to be a nickname, will not be sure whether to pronounce it "cass" as
> in "Cassandra" or "Kazz" as in "Casdoe".

How do we know Casdoe is a Kazz, then? I thought it was Kass-Dough.

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Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com
Computational Intelligence Laboratory - Texas A&M Texarkana
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