[Magdalen] "D'" pet peeve (note apostrophe).

James Oppenheimer-Crawford oppenheimerjw at gmail.com
Sun Feb 22 07:08:41 UTC 2015


Nah, it's whatever they want it to be.

James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
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On Sat, Feb 21, 2015 at 7:13 PM, M J [Mike] Logsdon <mjl at ix.netcom.com>
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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