Re: Ted Sarand_A_s

["Hakim Madjid" <HMadjid@mindspring.com>]

I'm not trying to argue the point really, I'm just wondering
why Ted Sarandas is allowing 'EEI to misspell his name on
it its website.

73, de Hakim (N1ZFF)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan Strassberg" <Dan.Strassberg@att.net>
To: "Hakim Madjid" <HMadjid@mindspring.com>
Cc: <boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org>
Sent: Sunday, April 22, 2001 11:54 AM
Subject: Re: Ted Sarand_A_s


> I stand by what I said about the spelling. I once heard Ted carry on for
> about 15 minutes on the air over how hardly anyone ever spelled his name
> correctly. His in-studio guest during this rant was Fred Smerlis (I
suppose
> that could be Smerlas), a friend of Ted's who, I think, used to play for
> the Patriots. Fred often appeared on Ted's show and is--I presume--also
> of Greek extraction. But who knows? After years of fighting a losing
battle
> on the spelling of his name, maybe Ted decided that if he couldn't lick
'em,
> he'd join 'em, and legally changed the spelling of his name to the way
> everybody insisted on spelling it.
>
> I really sympathize with Ted on this issue. Very few people spell my last
> name correctly either.
>
> --
>
> Dan Strassberg, dan.strassberg@worldnet.att.net
> Phone: 1-617-558-4205, eFax: 1-707-215-6367
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hakim Madjid <HMadjid@mindspring.com>
> To: Dan Strassberg <Dan.Strassberg@att.net>;
> boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org
> <boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org>
> Date: Sunday, April 22, 2001 11:20 AM
> Subject: Re: Ted Sarand_A_s
>
>
> >Actually the 'as' ending is not uncommon in Greek names. Many years back,
> >a woman I briefly dated (of Greek extraction) - her surname ended in AS
> >
> >As for Ted SarandAS I just checked the WEEI web site, and both on their
> >boradcast schedule page and on the page where they have their talent
> >profiles
> >they spell his name with the IS ending, who knows?
>
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