Dale Nelson Wrote:
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> Probably everyone here already knew how to
> pronounced Arthur Machen's last name. When I was
> I youngster, though, I heard it in my mind's ear
> as Matchen. It's good to see Tolkien's definitive
> statement, in a hitherto not recorded (so far as I
> know) bit of writing, about his name. In the
> video biography of Tolkien, his publisher Rayner
> Unwin pronounces it with the accent on the second
> syllable, if I remember rightly; this is
> incorrect. (When I was a boy I heard the name in
> my mind's ear as Tol-kine.) Lin Carter correctly
> explained the pronunciation of the author of The
> Charwoman's Shadow, which (when I was a kid) I
> heard in my mind's ear as Dun-sunny).
I'm uninformed on all of these, and would greatly appreciate the correct pronunciations.
In my mind's ear:
TOLL-key-en
MAY-chen
dun-SAY-nee
Here's one I know I got wrong and had to be corrected:
J. G. Ballard
I heard:
BAL-lurd
and I now believe it is:
bal-LARD or buh-LARD
--Sawfish
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