Re: Pronunciation of "Purcell"

MICHAEL H ARSHAGOUNI (marshago@library.ucla.edu)
Thu, 29 Apr 1999 14:17:12 -0700 (Pacific Daylight Time)

I remember one of my instructors at the Royal College of Music
telling me that in England they pronounced it pur-CELL because
PUR-cell (or PUR-sl) was a liquid dish soap (Persil, I believe).

On Thu, 29 Apr 1999 15:18:37 -0500 (CDT) Mitchell P Brauner
<brauner@csd.uwm.edu> wrote:

> One thing I'm not sure of in Eric van Tassel's assured posting is: does
> one pronounce it PUR-cell or does one pronounce it PUR-sl? Since the ode
> clearly puts the accent on the first syllable.
>
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