Dear Paul;-
  Since I pronounce it Dall as in Pal  or "My Gal Sal", I must be wrong. I usually am.
    Art
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> From: Paul Callomon <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: 2004/12/30 Thu AM 09:01:03 EST
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> Subject: Dall or Dall?
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> Colleagues,
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> 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:
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> 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.
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> PC.
>
> Paul Callomon
> Collections Manager
> Malacology, Invertebrate Paleontology and General Invertebrates
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