Richard R. McKnight wrote: > I have heard the name "Hebb"
pronounced with the H sounded and with the H silent.
Which is correct?
Oh, it's Hebb with the H sounded, or at least that's how he
was hintroduced on the honly hoccasion that I met him.
(He was an anglophone boy from Nova Scotia.)
I don't know of a HOP textbook that does a systematic job
on >correct pronunciations of the names of important
psychologists, although a number of them comment on the
more improbable ones (C. S. "Purse" is Pearce, or that's
how they said it everywhere circa 1900, in Britain still;
Lewin's giving up on "Leveen" once he came to America.)
I do or don't anglicize names to various degrees (Re nay'
Day-cart, but without my French r's. --No puns, please --
and Ver'-nick-ah vith the vubbel u.) Now that it's possible
to send a font (international phonetic, for example) along
with a web page, maybe somebody will set up as official
pronouncer. TIPs goes around on this topic about once
a year, it seems.
-David
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David G. Likely, Department of Psychology,
University of New Brunswick
Fredericton, N. B., E3B 5A3 Canada
History of Psychology:
http://www.unb.ca/psychology/likely/psyc4053.htm
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