As for "Oughtred", I never gave it a thought, always having assumed it was "Ought" as in "you ought to do this" plus "red" as in the colour.
A famous family of packet drivers for (among others) Ethernet cards comes from a firm called Crnwyr. Just to be on the safe side, there was a .wav file on their web page that pronounced this name for you. Unfortunately I coul not locate the page just now (www.crnwyr.com pulled a blank). Rudolf
