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Re: STU Rules Update Update

To: "Mark Sirota" <msirota@isc.upenn.edu>
Subject: Re: STU Rules Update Update
From: "richard nichols" <rnichol1@san.rr.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Jul 1999 09:11:06 -0700
Mark wrote:
> One more thing -- it's spelled Porsche.  (And it's two syllables --
> POOR-sha.)

Bugged me, too -- but you mean "PORE-sha", doncha?  ;)

Which reminds me of a story I read in a car mag years ago.  An editor
coudn't understand why one of his readers/callers kept saying "pore-tee-ay"
instead of "pore-sha".

It seems someone had written in a prior issue that it's not pronounced
"Porsh", but "Portia" -- as in the Shakespearean character.  *We* know the
name is pronounced "porsha", but it seems that spelling only made matters
worse for that particular reader!  :]

Richard Nichols
rnichol1@san.rr.com



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