Walter Meyer responds to Steve Schwartz who was responding to Walter:
>>>And how would the Germans pronounce Ralph Vaughan Williams' first name?
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>>The ones who knew something would pronounce it "rafe."
>
>Just so they don't pronounce it "Raahlf" or, worse, "Rawlf"
Unfortunately as a little boy I could never pronounce his name. So he
became "Uncle Giraffe".
CR