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And, of course, in the area of peculiarly spelled or pronounced names, I recall the English prof I once had who would say something like Tom could decide to spell his name "j-a-c-k" and say "no, it's pronounced like 'T-o-m'".
His extreme example was to illustrate that names are subject only to the rules made up by the possessor of the name. Most go (more or less) by the standards of the language but there's nothing that says they have to...
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re: Most go (more or less) by the standards of the language but there's nothing that says they have to...
That's not correct. Actually, *I* say they have to...they just don't listen.
Just to add to this, noticed a few minutes ago that there's a "Jay Cheetham" spelled with "EE", not "EA" in the sound department at Acme Shark (makes "Stargate Atlantis" for Sci-Fi Channel), and that led to a bunch of other "Cheethams" in the movie industry , more in fact than there are "Cheathams" with the "EA"
Further, your Britishness, you might want to take a look at a map of Manchester, England, which has a district named "Cheetham".
The name apparently goes back to Old English.
No idea. However, Click and Clack are on now, and they adressed the show as letter from someone who had watched it. The writer mentioned that the Marx brothers once made a terrible movie "The Big Store" so they would have money to rescue Chico from gambling debts. The writer went on to ask which of the two Click and Clack brothers had the gambling debt. C&C didn't adress the quality of their show, though.
It sounds like a case of hoping their celebrity would carry the show, and there was no need (as another poster mentions) of having good writers and a director who can throw the bad stuff away.
This is the second time someone has tried to translate Car Talk to television. Anyone else remember "The George Wendt Show" from 1995? He played one of two brothers who were mechanics and hosts of a radio show. You wouldn't have known that from watching it, though. It was absolutely terrible, and only lasted seven episodes.
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