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----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Brewster" <pugix@...>
To: "MOTM List" <motm@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2005 6:57 AM
Subject: [motm] How do you pronounce 'MOTM'?


> Is it
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> EM OH TEE EM
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> MO' TEM
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> I was talking with Paul Schreiber on the phone one time and he
> pronounced it the first way, each letter by itself.
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> And a related question. When you have a name in your head, do you have
> in mind both a spelling and a sound? A friend of mine had a dog he
> called "Dow". At least that is how it was spelled in my head when I
> called the dog. "Here, Dow. Good dog!" Later I found out his name was
> "Tao".
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> So in this case we have an acronym for something, Modular Of The
> Mothers, etc., I forget exactly :). But what is its sound? In your own
> mind, when you see ∗MOTM∗, how does it ring?
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> -Richard Brewster
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