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From: "Jeanne M. Keefe" <>
Subject: Re: [Rensselaer] Rensselaer pronunciation
Date: Fri, 02 Dec 2005 09:12:52 -0500
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And if your a true local, it is pronounced with only two
syllables: Wren-slur , with the emphasis on the first.
Jeanne Keefe

At 01:56 AM 12/2/2005, you wrote:
>Having been away a few days, I have just caught up with the request for
>the pronunciation of Rensselaer.
>
>In Troy the students at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and most
>long-time residents almost universally pronounce it wren-suh-leer without
>special emphasis on any syllable. If the Dutch pronunciation of Van
>Rensselaer was different, it has been lost in antiquity.
>
>Rogers Finch
>ex-Troy NY
>now Peabody MA
>
>
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Jeanne M. Keefe
Vice President, Visual Resources Association
<http://www.vraweb.org/>www.vraweb.org
Visual Resources Librarian
Architecture Library
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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
110 8th Street, Troy, NY 12180
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