Colleagues,

I am conducting a straw poll of English-speaking shell people in order to solve a particular question one way or the other. Here it is:

William Healey Dall: how is his name pronounced? Does it rhyme with 'ball' and 'all', or does it rhyme with 'Pal' and  'Kal'?

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I will publish the final decision to a breathless world. Why does this matter? Well, I have to transliterate his name into a non-alphabetical language for a paper I'm writing, and this has to be done on the basis of its sound.

PC.

Paul Callomon
Collections Manager
Malacology, Invertebrate Paleontology and General Invertebrates
Department of Malacology
Academy of Natural Sciences
1900 Parkway, Philadelphia PA 19103-1195, USA
Tel 215-405-5096
Fax 215-299-1170
Secretary, American Malacological Society
On the web at http://erato.acnatsci.org/ams/

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