And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Very entertaining and interesting.
ReplyDeleteOK, How about all you English speakers try and pronounce the name: Dún Laoghaire.
ReplyDeleteDoon log-hair!
DeleteNo cigar jabrwok. It's "Dun Leary". A suburb south of Dublin.
DeleteYeah, I knew I wasn't going to get that one right:-)
DeleteLockheed is an Americanization of Scottish Loughhead, which Americans pronounced Lughead. They spelled it wrong so we would say it right.
DeleteI had a BIL, last name Majszk. pronounced as though spelled Mayheck
the French should respond by having Americans pronounce Languedoc, Camargue, and Fresnel.