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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">“Isa” used to worry me until I realised it was short for Isabella. And I admit that despite my Commonwealth background I always used to pronounce “Louis” “Lewis,” as I had a Welsh great-grandfather
who was always referred to in the family as “Lewis” but spelled “Louis.” I wonder now if his name was in fact Lewis.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Caroline Webb<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">The University of Newcastle, Australia<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> Vwoolf <vwoolf-bounces+caroline.webb=newcastle.edu.au@lists.osu.edu>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Stuart N. Clarke via Vwoolf<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, 4 February 2020 10:21 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> vwoolf@lists.osu.edu<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Vwoolf] Oh, those names again<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Personally I have no doubt whatsoever on how VW pronounced:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Bernard (it is hard to think of any ordinary forename with the emphasis on the second syllable, except for Yvonne)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Louis<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Rezia<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Isa (occasionally the odd doubt creeps in, but I crush it; I have been hunting in Mark Hussey’s CUP edn of
<em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">BA</span></em> for a many-page discussion of this issue, but have failed to find it)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">As for Louis, people often say Robert Lou-ee Stevenson, but ‘</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#2A2A2A">He was given the names
<span class="name"><span style="border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">Robert Lewis Balfour</span></span> but changed the spelling (although not the pronunciation) of the second to
<span class="name"><span style="border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">Louis</span></span> when he was about eighteen, and dropped the third in 1873; to his family and close friends he was always known as
<span class="name"><span style="border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">Louis</span></span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#2A2A2A">’ (<em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">ODNB</span></em>).</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Cf. Pierre Louis: ‘From 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 <i>i grec</i> or "Greek I")’ (Wikipedia).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#2A2A2A">Stuart</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:whitesmoke"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black"> Jeremy Hawthorn via Vwoolf
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:whitesmoke"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black">Sent:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black"> Tuesday, February 4, 2020 4:14 AM<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:whitesmoke"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black">To:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black"> Mark Scott ; Mary Ellen Foley
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:whitesmoke"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black">Cc:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black"> vwoolf
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:whitesmoke"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black">Subject:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black"> Re: [Vwoolf] Talland House<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">On 04.02.2020 04:33, Mark Scott wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">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. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Mark Scott<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Common Reader<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:red">Well, Wikipedia's page for Louis Armstrong has this:</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;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]
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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.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Ditto St Louis. Officially Saint Lewis, but referred to affectionately (by, among others, Chuck Berry) as Saint Loo ee.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Jeremy H<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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