Re: Pronunciation Of _William_

Perennially Pretentious, Prissy, Prattling Peter is...

Still Digging in that hole he has constructed for himself.

First it was:

"It is pronounced as two syllables, "Will-yum", by most Britons, but as
three syllables, "Will-i-um" by careful speakers."

Peter M. 'Pogue' Stewart
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Hilarious!

So, _ipso facto_, PMS holds that MOST BRITONS are CARELESS SPEAKERS.

Ridiculous!

DSH
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Then he dug deeper:

"When they are not careful they are careless, i.e. LESS THAN CAREFUL,
not giving serious thought & attention to what they are doing. Most
people in saying "William" or any other word have NO conscious care for
the sound they are making."

Peter M. 'Pogue' Stewart -- SGM's Favorite Fool
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Now he digs even deeper -- water is seeping into his foetid hole and
rising 'round his rubbers:

"(b) Careless: 1 Neglectful; indifferent; heedless... 3 Negligent,
unconcerned..."

Peter M. 'Pogue' Stewart -- SGM's Favorite Fool -- Quoting from a
favorite dictionary, which he endorses.
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So now Perennially Pretentious, Prissy, Prattling Peter makes it clear
he holds that the billions of English speakers all over the Globe who
say "WILLYAM" or "WILLYUM" -- or indeed anything else but
""Will-i-um" -- the PPPPP approved and endorsed version -- are
"careless" -- "have NO conscious care for the sound they are making." --
and are "neglectful" -- "indifferent" -- "heedless" and "negligent".

Deeeeelightful!

Virginia, it just doesn't get any better than this.

Enjoy!

"The final happiness of man consists in the contemplation of truth....
This is sought for its own sake, and is directed to no other end beyond
itself." Saint Thomas Aquinas, [1224/5-1274] "Summa Contra Gentiles"
[c.1258-1264]

"Populus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur. Odi profanum vulgus et arceo."

Quintus Aurelius Stultus [33 B.C. - 42 A.D.]

Prosecutio stultitiae est gravis vexatio, executio stultitiae coronat
opus.

D. Spencer Hines

Lux et Veritas et Libertas

Vires et Honor

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