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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