2 Comments
⭠ Return to thread

Here’s a fun one: Warren Harding’s middle name was Gamaliel, which I’ve often heard rendered in English as guh-MAY-lee-ull. If there’s a wax cylinder somewhere with a recording of the man himself pronouncing it, I imagine that’s how he’d say it. (The original is gaam-LEE-el. I’m not sure how the extra syllable in the English version got there.)

Expand full comment

That is fun! Ah and you've just reminded that "Levi" fits here, too.

Expand full comment