Re: Resurfacing from the void with a petty question

Jake McHenry (seymour@ktis.net)
Mon, 07 Jun 1999 15:11:45 -0500 

I had an uncle named Cornelius. The family was a large one and the childrens
names, in order of age, were Andrew, Kathleen (my mother), Brian, Maureen,
Cornelius, and Eileen. When Eileen was a small child she had a hell of a
time pronouncing Cornelius. It always seemed to come out as Nonnie. And
Nonnie he was until he died in a river at the ripe old age of 23.
I have always been a ZOO-ey man myself and in my heart of hearts can hear
Franny, regardless of intellect, trying to pronounce Zachary and having it
come out ZOO-ey. (The Zoe pronunciation just doesn't fit in to this little
theory.)
Solid handshakes.
-Jake McHenry
And besides, I agree with Paul. The Zoe pronunciation, for whatever reason,
sounds pretentious.

www.supermanytime.com
"High Culture for Low Brows."
-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Kennedy <kennedyp@toronto.cbc.ca>
To: bananafish@lists.nyu.edu <bananafish@lists.nyu.edu>
Date: Monday, June 07, 1999 1:24 PM
Subject: Re: Resurfacing from the void with a petty question


>PRONUNCIATIONS:
>
>ZOO-ey....  for sure.  I've always thought it pretentious when people said
>ZOE--e-mit-ein-umlaut...  (Besides the ONLY ZoE-e-mit-ein-umlaut that I'll
>allow is the wonderful Aussie actress named Caudwell--opposite whom I once
>played 'stage-door-Johnny' on Broadway, but that's another story....)
>
>....and thanks for the tip about EMUs (or should we be adding that 's' in
>order to talk about more than one Emyew?), Camille...
>
>Now, WHAT the HECK's a "billobong"? (sp?)  Confirm or deny that it has
>something to do with illicit drugs....
>
>Cheers,
>
>
>Paul
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>>Oh, I'm a Zoo-ey girl from way back. (: Has to do with a friend of mine's
>>tragic tale - he had a little dog named Zoo-ey, after Zooey Glass, and he
>>lost custody of him in a flatmate dispute. It was very sad.
>>
>>Besides - surely if it's a contraction of his Christian name it would be a
>>more obvious one than `Zoe'.
>>
>>And while I'm on the subject of pronunciation I'd like to call all the
>>Americans on the list to send out an urgent message to everyone over there
>>who pronounces Emu `EE-moo'. It's pronounced *EE-myew* Eemyew. Eemyew!!!
>>(And for what it's worth they're a lousy investment over here, too (: )
>>
>>Camille
>>verona_beach@geocities.com
>>@ THE ARTS HOLE http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Theater/6442
>>@ THE INVERTED FOREST http://www.angelfire.com/pa/invertedforest
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I was a member of this list for a while about a year ago, signed off
when
>>I
>>> relocated from New Hampshire to Arkansas, changed email addresses, etc,
>>and
>>> resubscribed about a month ago. I now submit my first post from the
South
>>in
>>> order to settle a friendly argument I'm having with a colleague here.
>>>
>>> How do various members of the list pronounce the name of the youngest
>>Glass
>>> brother? Do you pronounce it phonetically (Zoo-ey, with the first
>>syllable
>>> sounding like the place monkeys and elephants live) or like the female
>>name
>>> Zoe? I've heard both.
>>>
>>> I apologize for the pettiness of this question, but am genuinely
>>interested
>>> in your answers. I assure you that I am, on occasion, capable of coming
>>up
>>> with more interesting things to talk about.
>>>
>>> Good to be back,
>>> Bethany
>>>
>>>
>>> _______________________________________________________________
>>> Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com
>>
>>
>