Re: Pronunciation

["A. Joseph Ross" <lawyer@world.std.com>]

On 16 Feb 99,  Bob Nelson wrote:

> Also, I'm curious--was there ever a time where a
> certain actor-turned-politician had his last name
> pronounced "REE-gun"? I've seen and heard it
> said that way on such things as an old episode of
> "Laugh In", a Stan Freberg album, and a Phil Ochs
> spoken intro to a song. Unless they had it wrong,
> I find it odd that at one point people just started
> saying his last name as "RAY-gun". (I'm 37, so I'm
> not really sure how it was pronounced in the old days
> other than in the examples I gave.)
 
Well, back in the 1950s, he appeared regularly on G.E. Theatre, and he 
always pronounced his name RAY-gun when he introduced himself.  I 
also have a videotape of old Milton Berle material in which Reagan's 
name is pronounced RAY-gun.

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