Re: Entertaining headline

Stan Brown <the_stan_brown@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 15:42:49 -0400 from Joe Fineman <joe_f@xxxxxxxxxxx>:

Tom Lehrer rhymed it with "frown", "renown", & "down". Whether he
went so far as to pronounce the W as a spirant, I haven't noticed.

If you mean his first name, it was VARE-n'r.

But the German W is not an exact equivalent of the English V (or the
English W). It is pronounced by putting the lower lip, not against
the upper teeth, but close enough to the upper lip to get a buzz.
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