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.
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