Mastering Python

[Steve Holden]

Hendrik van Rooyen wrote:
>  "Dennis Lee Bieber" <wl....d at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>> On Wed, 28 Mar 2007 07:55:20 +0200, "Hendrik van Rooyen"
>> <m...l at mi...orp.co.za> declaimed the following in comp.lang.python:
> 
>>> Pretty obvious of course, as is the pronounciation of the
>>> name:  "Cholmondely"
>>>
>> Is that a scottish "Ch" (as in LoCH Lomond), plain hard "Ch" (as in
>> CHristmas) or a soft "Ch" (as in CHicken)?
> 
> It comes out something like "Chum-lee", with the ch like chicken...
> 
> (that's what I have heard -  but who knows - It may have been 
> a regional dialect, a case of the blind leading the blind, or 
> someone pulling the piss..)
> 
You have been correctly informed. It's one of the least intuitive names 
in the English language.

regards
  Steve
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