Oh all right Garth, I shall put you out of your misery... Mr Howard
is a Leslie, so "Lez" is the right answer. I went to school with a
few Americans and Canadians (a private school run by Benedictine
monks in Somerset, Downside by name) and they all pronounced names
strangely - Martin and Les come to mind immediately.
What they didn't do then was misuse "lay" and "lie": the former is a
transitive verb which takes a direct object e.g. "lay the picnic out
on the grass" whereas the latter is intransitive and takes no direct
object e.g. "I lie on my bed after a late night out feeling like
death".
The confusion arises because "lie" has the past tense as "lay" (I lay
in my bed for a long time yesterday) and "lay" looks completely
different (I laid the picnic out on the grass in case she wanted to
join me).
Look what you lot have done to our language :>).
Chris
At 08:17 -0600 18/6/02, Garth Wood wrote:
At 11:06 PM 6/17/2002 -0400, Leslie L. Clark wrote:
I thought his wife was the civilised one myself Les ;-).
See what technology does to warp one's world view [got that Warp in
there!]
By the way, do you pronounce your name like "Less" or like "Lez"?
As any good Brit would do. Think of Mr. Howard, for example, the
actor...
Oh God, that means we'll *never* learn how "Les" is pronounced in
Britain. ;-)
Garth
P.S.: the above comment intuited from the fact that Brits pronounce
the name "Cholmondelay" as "Chumley," "Worcestershire" as "Wooster,"
etc. ;-) ;-) ;-)
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