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During a heated phonics/whole lang. exchange at my staff meeting the other night, my northwest colleagues kept pronouncing HM as HOO-tin Mifflin. I finally had to speak up and remind them that if they'd had a strong Whole Language background in their own education, they would know the correct pronunciation. chuck (rhymes with... nevermind) > > Today on my way home I heard a commentater on NPR public radio > > pronounce the publisher Houghton Mifflin as Huff-tun. I always thought > > it was Ho-tun. Does anyone know for sure. I would usually defer to the > > radio, but it just sounds wrong. She also pronounced Knopf as Ku-nawf. > > I though Nawf. > > > > I realize this is not earth shattering, but I've always been > > instinctively good at pronouncing some of the more difficult author > > names. > As an author with an unusual name, I feel compelled to answer this. > It's Ho-tun and Ku-nawf. > > Best! > Anastasia Suen (Anna-STAY-sha SOON) > forsuens@flash.net -- Chuck Finnigan Central Elementary School Library Sedro-Woolley, WA 98284 360 855-3560 cfinnigan@ct.swsd.wednet.edu