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<DIV>Personally I have no doubt whatsoever on how VW pronounced:</DIV>
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<DIV>Bernard (it is hard to think of any ordinary forename with the emphasis on
the second syllable, except for Yvonne)</DIV>
<DIV>Louis</DIV>
<DIV>Rezia</DIV>
<DIV>Isa (occasionally the odd doubt creeps in, but I crush it; I have been
hunting in Mark Hussey’s CUP edn of <EM>BA</EM> for a many-page discussion of
this issue, but have failed to find it)</DIV>
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<DIV>As for Louis, people often say Robert Lou-ee Stevenson, but ‘<FONT
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was given the names </SPAN><SPAN class=name
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Lewis Balfour</SPAN><SPAN
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but changed the spelling (although not the pronunciation) of the second to
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when he was about eighteen, and dropped the third in 1873; to his family and
close friends he was always known as </SPAN><SPAN class=name
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Pierre Louis: ‘</SPAN><SPAN
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1890 onwards, he began spelling his name as "Louÿs", and pronouncing the final
S, as a way of expressing his fondness for classical Greek culture (the letter Y
is known in French as </SPAN><I
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or "Greek I")’ (Wikipedia).</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=vwoolf@lists.osu.edu>Jeremy
Hawthorn via Vwoolf</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, February 4, 2020 4:14 AM</DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=mark.travis@frontier.com>Mark Scott</A> ; <A
title=mefoleyuk@gmail.com>Mary Ellen Foley</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Cc:</B> <A title=vwoolf@lists.osu.edu>vwoolf</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Vwoolf] Talland House</DIV></DIV></DIV>
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<P>On 04.02.2020 04:33, Mark Scott wrote:<BR></P>
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<DIV>My experience is that Americans pronounce it both ways. As Jeremy
Hawthorne wrote, the city in Missouri (not Kansas or Illinois) is pronounced
Saint “Lewis” (Louis) whereas the great jazz trumpeter is almost always
referred to as “Loo – ee” (Louis) Armstrong. </DIV>
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<DIV>Mark Scott</DIV>
<DIV>Common Reader</DIV></DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE>
<P><FONT color=red>Well, Wikipedia's page for Louis Armstrong has
this:</FONT></P>
<P><FONT color=red>Pronunciation of name<BR>The Louis Armstrong House Museum
website states:<BR> Judging from home recorded tapes now in
our Museum Collections, Louis pronounced his own name as "Lewis". On his 1964
record "Hello, Dolly", he sings, "This is Lewis, Dolly" but in 1933 he made a
record called "Laughin' Louie". Many broadcast announcers, fans, and
acquaintances called him "Louie" and in a videotaped interview from 1983 Lucille
Armstrong calls her late husband "Louie" as well. Musicians and close friends
usually called him "Pops".[72] <BR>In a memoir written for Robert Goffin between
1943 and 1944, Armstrong states, "All white folks call me Louie," perhaps
suggesting that he himself did not or, on the other hand, that no whites
addressed him by one of his nicknames such as Pops.[73] That said, Armstrong was
registered as "Lewie" for the 1920 U.S. Census. On various live records he's
called "Louie" on stage, such as on the 1952 "Can Anyone Explain?" from the live
album In Scandinavia vol.1. The same applies to his 1952 studio recording of the
song "Chloe", where the choir in the background sings "Louie ... Louie", with
Armstrong responding "What was that? Somebody called my name?" "Lewie" is the
French pronunciation of "Louis" and is commonly used in Louisiana.</FONT></P>
<P>Ditto St Louis. Officially Saint Lewis, but referred to affectionately (by,
among others, Chuck Berry) as Saint Loo ee.</P>
<P>Brits tend to use French pronunciation for French words more than Americans
(Louis Vitton, masseuse, and so on). My assumption is that Virginia Woolf would
have used Loo ee, but I have no evidence for that.</P>
<P>Jeremy H<BR></P></DIV></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>