
On 1/28/08, jerzy.karczmarczuk@info.unicaen.fr
Well, unless you are French. Then you don't pronounce "H". The remaining letters are pronounced according to the Règlements de l'Académie.
Fair enough. I wouldn't want to be culturally insensitive, and should have said that my statement was only directed at people who were speaking some dialect of English.
On the other hand, the name "Chevalier" is pronounced as it should be.
I can pronounce my own name better than more or less any other American, but -- sadly -- quite a bit worse than anyone who actually grew up speaking French. Cheers, Tim -- Tim Chevalier * http://cs.pdx.edu/~tjc * Often in error, never in doubt "Now I'm trying to get back to what I know that I should be / hoping to God that I was just a temporary absentee" -- Gerard McHugh