Hendrik van Rooyen wrote: > "Dennis Lee Bieber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> On Wed, 28 Mar 2007 07:55:20 +0200, "Hendrik van Rooyen" >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> declaimed the following in comp.lang.python: > >>> Pretty obvious of course, as is the pronounciation of the >>> name: "Cholmondely" >>> >> Is that a scottish "Ch" (as in LoCH Lomond), plain hard "Ch" (as in >> CHristmas) or a soft "Ch" (as in CHicken)? > > It comes out something like "Chum-lee", with the ch like chicken... > > (that's what I have heard - but who knows - It may have been > a regional dialect, a case of the blind leading the blind, or > someone pulling the piss..) > You have been correctly informed. It's one of the least intuitive names in the English language.
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