Klarinet Archive - Posting 001294.txt from 1998/03

From: Shouryu Nohe <jnohe@-----.edu>
Subj: Ralphing. (Not blowing chunks, puking, hurling, tossing your , cookies, heaving, etc. That's a different ralphing...)
Date: Sat, 28 Mar 1998 17:40:07 -0500

On Fri, 27 Mar 1998, Mark Charette wrote:

> Joshua M. Coleman wrote:
> > On Fri, 27 Mar 1998 BKruse@-----.com wrote:
> > > It can't be "RAY-fur" because then it would be spelt "Ralpher"
> > Wouldn't that be pronounced (RAL-fuhr)?
>
> Not by Mr. Von Williams.
>
> Ding.

I suspect that there's something to do with Ralph VAUGHN Williams here,
but as a lowly college student, I'm very clueless. (Perhaps not as
clueless as the HS students...or Josh...Lord knows NO one could be
more...er, nevermind).

Is his name not pronounced the traditional RalfVonWillyumz as it is
deceptively spelled, or what?

Or do I deserve a bop for that?

Shouryu Nohe
Professor of SCSM102, New Mexico State Univ.
http://web.nmsu.edu/~jnohe; ICQ 6771552
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