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From: "Jay & Carol Menges" <>
Subject: Re: [LDR] Great debate - Outen VS Wooten
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 11:21:14 -0700
References: <200202191409.JAA24751@polaris.cv.nrao.edu>


The first and only family of living people I know personally with this
name pronounces it with the long "oo" as "toot." Just for what it's still
worth.

--Carol


I don't know of anyone in my family who pronounces
> Wootten with a long 'oo' to rhyme with 'toot'. We all pronounce it to
> rhyme with 'foot', as is most common for a vowel before a double
consonant.
> However, almost anyone else who addresses me gets it wrong, rhyming
with'toot'
> to my constant dismay.


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