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...I just heard him pronounce his own name on an FT podcast. It's incredible

33 sats \ 2 replies \ @adlai 25 Aug
heard him pronounce his own name

is it like "Stanley Featherstonehaugh Ukridge" or even the infamous "Psmith" ?

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no clue about those!

No, the "ggles" just sort of meshed into a weird soft vowel-sound

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52 sats \ 0 replies \ @adlai 25 Aug

they're from P.G. Wodehouse; I believe both characters named specifically to ridicule some of the more preposterous British abuses of the Latin alphabet.

Wikipedia pronounciation guides for both names are consistent with what I was told by the same folks who hoard old Wodehouse novels like patoshi coinbases.

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