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 [log in to unmask]