Re: Python licence again

On 2005-04-22, Will McGugan <news@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>> How *do* you pronounce it? "Thurrow" seems to match
>> how I say the word, along with everyone else I've
>> ever met (until now?).
>
> I would pronounce it like 'thurra', since I'm Scottish. It always makes
> me cringe when Americans pronounce 'Edinburgh' as 'edin-burrow' rather
> then 'edin-burra'.

The city in Pennsylvania is spelled "Edinboro", so there are a
few people over here with a decent excuse.

And it could be worse, we could call it "edun-burg".

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