[Magdalen] "D'" pet peeve (note apostrophe).
Marion Thompson
marionwhitevale at gmail.com
Sun Feb 22 00:26:05 UTC 2015
Up here we'd say Da-rrigo and Da-rabian.
Marion, a pilgrim
On 2/21/2015 7:13 PM, M J [Mike] Logsdon wrote:
> For years I've heard locals of every stripe refer to the D'Arrigo Bros farming entity as "Dee-Arrigo". And since I've gone Food Network, I've heard everyone there refer to chef Melissa D'Arabian as "Dee-Arabian". Am I alone in wondering why no one honors the apostrophe? It's "Darrigo" and "Darabian", phonetically speaking. (Right?)
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