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>I am glad to learn that native speakers can have
some difficulties too. Maybe from now on I will not
feel so embarrassed <
Never feel embarrassed Fernando, the problem is just as common with place
names as well as with people's names. We all
Fernando contributed:
> Maybe from now on I will not
>feel so embarrassed as I used to when I have to face
>the daunting task of pronouncing someone's name over the
>phone and get the other side to understand who I am
>referring to. :-)
The other possible embarrassment is guessing the gender of
Rudolf Hooijenga wrote:
>
> As for "Oughtred", I never gave it a thought, always having assumed
it was
> "Ought" as in "you ought to do this" plus "red" as in the colour.
>
> A famous family of packet drivers for (among others) Ethernet cards
comes
> from a firm called Crnwyr.
>
> Just to be on
