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Re: Purcell
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Richard Pennycuick <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 28 May 2001 07:44:01 +1000
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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.

Richard Pennycuick
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