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From: marsha moses <>
Subject: [S-I] Merle
Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 16:56:05 -0400
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So is the pronunciation closer to Merrill than to Murl?
On May 17, 2011, at 2:26 PM, wrote:

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> Kind of like 'Merle', which cannot be correctly pronounced in English due to that l. But since it's my ex's, I don't care if it's bungled. I sometimes explain it as "like merde, only with an l".

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