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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...
-- 
Michael L. Siemon                             mls@panix.com        

        "sempiternal, though sodden towards sundown."