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RE: Mosby - Gene C - 12-09-2013 03:48 PM
What is the correct way to pronounce Mosby?
I was watching (only briefly) C-Span 3, Lectures in History - Guerrilla Warfare in the Civil War by Brown University Professor Megan Kate Nelson (not my favorite TV lecture) and she pronounced his name differently. I had always heard it with a long O. She gave it more of a "Maaaaasby" pronunciation.
http://www.c-span.org/History/Events/Lectures-in-History-Guerrilla-Warfare-in-the-Civil-War/10737442668/
There are some other, hopefully more interesting lectures on certain Civil War themes this month
http://www.c-span.org/History/Events/The-Civil-War-New-York-City-Draft-Riots/10737442874/
RE: Mosby - BettyO - 12-09-2013 04:55 PM
Gene -
"Moes-bee" is how Virginians (and Mosby was a Virginian) pronounce it and how I've always pronounced it.....
Don't know why folk pronounce it "Maahsbee"..... Yankees pronounce it differently -- there is no "h" is Mosby.....just like some say "Warshington." We say, "Waahshinton."
RE: Mosby - L Verge - 12-09-2013 06:17 PM
I've never heard it pronounced any other way except "Moes-bee." Maybe this prof is from Baastin (i.e. Boston)?