Re: [CR]Alex Singer, correction pronounciation

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Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2008 13:10:50 -0700
To: "Mitch Harris" <mitch.harris@gmail.com>, haxixe@gmail.com
From: "Jan Heine" <heine94@earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: [CR]Alex Singer, correction pronounciation
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At 1:51 PM -0600 9/25/08, Mitch Harris wrote:
>On the other hand Singer is such a familiar word in English, both as
>an ordinary noun and as a proper name, that its path toward
>anglicization is smoothed and few people will object to hearing
>"singer" for an A.Singer bike when it is said by a native English
>speaker on soil where English is widely spoken.

Absolutely. In fact, in the U.S., I refer to Alex Singer as if he had been a London, rather than Paris, builder. But in France, I use the French pronunciation.

Jan Heine
Editor
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