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From: Ashley Sanders <>
Subject: Re: [SANDERS] Sanders vs. Saunders
Date: Wed, 3 May 2000 09:11:45 +0100
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wrote:
> In my grandmother's family, there is a family tradition that the family
> originally spelled the name "Saunders", but since they did not pronounce the
> u in the name, they eventually dropped it. I suspect this is the case.
> Consider the name Staunton, the town in Virginia. It is pronounced "Stanton"
> as if it did not have the u in it.

Intreresting; I'm a Sanders and certainly don't pronounce my name
as if it had a u in it, yet almost everyone seems to write my
name as Saunders unless I explicitly spell it out for them.

Ashley.

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