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Subject: Re: [HARTSHORN] Hartshorn pronunciation
Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2007 18:26:33 -0600
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Interesting that this has stirred up as much chatter here as anything lately.

My wife insists on saying Hart shorn and when I correct her I have to
gently remind here that I am the one who had the name first in our family.

I'm with James on the reasoning and everyone who pronounces it Harts horn.

Should we ban from the list all those who send us emails that
pronounce it Hart shorn? ';-)

Dale Hartshorn
Sioux City, IA

At 12:20 PM 11/7/2007, you wrote:
>The ones I always find amusing are those who stumble over the name and try
>to pronounce it like "Hawthorne". (Thank you, Nathaniel!) I think they see
>the "Ha" at the start, the "orn" at the end, and a bunch of consonants in
>the middle, so they just jump to "Hawthorne" -- except that while they're
>trying to say that, their eyes are quietly whispering to them, "Where's the
>'w'? I don't see a 'w' in there. And why is there an 's'? Something is
>wrong!" The result is a fair amount of stammering as their brain tries to
>catch up with their lips.
>
>On 11/7/07, Derick Hartshorn <> wrote:
> >
> > My grandfather, the son of Newton Timothy who spent two years in
> > England researching the family name, had much to say about the
> > pronunciation of the family name.
> > He was more than willing to correct anyone who pronounced it any way
> > other than HARTS-HORN. In his patient instruction, he would pronounce
> > the name 'HARTS' separated by a space of three seconds and continue
> > with 'HORN.' Then again, we have a cousin from Connecticut who has
> > always pronounced his name as HART-SHORN. I can only picture a deer
> > who has had his fleece harvested.
> >
> > I have always experienced a problem with strangers who try to use
> > three incomprehensible syllables. Some seem to have great difficulty
> > breaking down the name into two simple syllables, whichever they
> > might be. It also might be interesting to note that some New
> > Englanders, in an apparent attempt to economize on speech, shortened
> > the spelling to Hartson, often pronouncing the corrupted spelling as
> > Hart'sn.
> >
> > --Derick S. Harts' horn
> >
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