Re: Pronouncing Baden-Powell
Cheryl Singhal (csinghal@CAPACCESS.ORG)
Thu, 27 Mar 1997 14:54:10 -0500
On Wed, 26 Mar 1997, Richard Sullivan wrote:
> Although I cannot claim to have heard the founder himself,
> when Betty Clay, his daughter presented me with my Wood Badge beads at
> last year's Gilwell Reunion, she pronounced it to rhyme with Noel.
Now there you go again, to paraphrase somebody I heard on TV. <G>
Is Noel said as No-Ell, or Nole, or no-ul or No-well?
Which as some of you might note, also covers all the possible
pronounciations of Powell. <G>
As the placard from Pennsylvania says: the hurrieder I go, the behinder
I get.
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