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Re: Purcell
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Deryk Barker <[log in to unmask]>
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Sat, 16 Jun 2001 09:43:32 -0700
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Richard Pennycuick ([log in to unmask]) wrote:

>Bill Hong replied to Bert Bailey's:
>
>>>(BTW: pron. Pur-SELL or PUR-sul?)
>>
>>I've only heard it with the accent on the first syllable.
>
>For years I pronounced it with the last syllable stressed.  Persil is
>a local brand of laundry detergent and it seemed somehow disrespectful,
>albeit tenuously, to equate dirty socks with Come ye sons of art.

It's also (Persil that is) French for parsley. Make of that what you
will.

Deryk Barker
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