MOTM

MOW-tim

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richard Brewster" <pugix@...>
To: "MOTM List" <motm@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2005 6:57 AM
Subject: [motm] How do you pronounce 'MOTM'?


> Is it
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> EM OH TEE EM
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> MO' TEM
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> I was talking with Paul Schreiber on the phone one time and he 
> pronounced it the first way, each letter by itself.
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> And a related question.  When you have a name in your head, do you have 
> in mind both a spelling and a sound?  A friend of mine had a dog he 
> called "Dow".  At least that is how it was spelled in my head when I 
> called the dog.  "Here, Dow. Good dog!"   Later I found out his name was 
> "Tao".
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> So in this case we have an acronym for something, Modular Of The 
> Mothers, etc., I forget exactly :).  But what is its sound?  In your own 
> mind, when you see *MOTM*, how does it ring?
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> -Richard Brewster
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