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Hard to Pronounce Literary Names

DateSaturday 17 January, 2009
Thomas Pynchon = "PIN-chawn" not "PIN-shin" or "PIN-chin" etc. etc.

More here. For the record, my name, Alex Davies, is pronounced day-lex ay-vees, where ay sounds like aye, or eh, dependent on the elevation of the tongue.
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