Hi Paul,

Of course, I pronounce his name to rhyme with 'Pal'. I wonder how
many speakers of Romance languages would pronounce it the other way.
There should be only a few, if any!

Happy New Year!

Emilio

>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'?
>
>To avoid gumming up the listserver, please cast your votes directly
>to me at [log in to unmask]
>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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