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From: Gerry Provost <>
Subject: RE: Pronunciation
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 16:37:35 -0400


Why is it when we have a "discussion" on this site, only the first couple
of people are tolerated to discuss, then everybody else is told to change
the subject or drop it? Doesn't everyone deserve a minute to share their
ideas?

-----Original Message-----
From:Virginia L. "Ginny" Keefer [SMTP:]
Sent:Thursday, April 13, 2000 5:19 PM
To:;
Subject:Re: Pronunciation

Enough already of ways to say Campbell....it is self explanatory. Ginny
Keefer
----- Original Message -----
From: James E. (Jim) Campbell <>
To: <>
Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2000 10:45 AM
Subject: Pronunciation


> I don't want to belabor this thread, but it seems to me that the
> "correct" way to pronounce someone's name is the way they want it
> pronounced. I pronounce it Cambul, but know people in upstate New York
> who pronounce their name Camp Bell. I have never tried to convince them
> that they are pronouncing their name wrong. After all, it is THEIR
> name.
>
> My mother-in-law (being from upstate New York) always introduces me even
> after forty some years as Jim Camp Bell. However, she pronounces the
> Campbell Soup products as Cambul. Go figure.
>
> --
> James E. (Jim) Campbell
> http://home.att.net/~jimc-raleigh-nc/
>
>

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