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kingshearte in booksellers

Jul 21, 2008 16:58

Today, I had a guy ask me for helping finding a book by (and I'm going to attempt to write this phonetically) Alexander DUMM-ess.

I wanted to cry.

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dizmo July 21 2008, 21:04:01 UTC

I had a mother coming in once looking for a book assigned to her son for school. It was, as she put it... "Night, by Ee-lee Weasel."

fuunsaiki July 21 2008, 21:10:40 UTC

I'll bite. What was it really?

dizmo July 21 2008, 21:11:55 UTC

No, it was Night, but the pronunciation of Elie Wiesel made me doubletake. XD

fuunsaiki July 21 2008, 21:18:04 UTC

Ahhh! Not one I'm familiar with, which is GOOD, 'cos otherwise that would have been a SERIOUS bastardisation. :3

happyjackal July 23 2008, 03:40:00 UTC

actually he is German and that is the correct pronunciation of his name.

estoy_rompida July 23 2008, 04:28:22 UTC

er, it's not ee-lee weasel. proper german pronunciation is e-lie vee-zel.

estoy_rompida July 23 2008, 04:32:07 UTC

excuse me, i type too fast. el-ee, not e-lie. hah on me.

etherealdeva July 24 2008, 09:25:19 UTC

I used to get "I need a copy of Night Weasel".
The booklists around our area used to list the surname of the author only.

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