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Ysgrifennodd Michael L. Siemon (mls@panix.com):
   In article <4vf244$bsl@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk>,
   Simon.Buck@Computing-Service.Cambridge.AC.UK wrote:

   +<Timon>, as one might expect, rhymes with <Simon>.

   Ah, there's the rub.  My great^2-grandfather (surnamed Simon) arrived
   in the USA from Sachsen-Anhalt, forwarned that Americans would mangle
   the pronunciation if he kept the standard spelling.  He (clever man
   that he was! :-() decided to forestall this stupidity by introducing
   a variant spelling, to be sure that his new neighbors would say his
   name correctly.

   As you may guess, this cleverness of his has only contributed to
   *multiple* mispronunciations of my name, with the "correct" variant
   being quite distinctly in the minority.  Oh, well; the best laid
   plans of meece and men gang oft agley...

Well, you don"t say how it `should' be pronounced: i assume something
like /'zi:mOn/. Unfortunately, your esteemed ancestor chose a spelling
which might reinforce the German pronunciation in the eyes of a German
speaker, but only reinforces the English pronunciation for a naif
English speaker!

But even in German, <Timon> rhymes with <Simon>.                     :->

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