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12-09-2013, 03:48 PM (This post was last modified: 12-09-2013 03:56 PM by Gene C.)
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RE: Mosby
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/Lec...737442668/

There are some other, hopefully more interesting lectures on certain Civil War themes this month
http://www.c-span.org/History/Events/The...737442874/

So when is this "Old Enough To Know Better" supposed to kick in?
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12-09-2013, 04:55 PM (This post was last modified: 12-09-2013 04:59 PM by BettyO.)
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RE: Mosby
Gene -

"Moes-bee" is how Virginians (and Mosby was a Virginian) pronounce it and how I've always pronounced it..... Big Grin

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."

"The Past is a foreign country...they do things differently there" - L. P. Hartley
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12-09-2013, 06:17 PM
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I've never heard it pronounced any other way except "Moes-bee." Maybe this prof is from Baastin (i.e. Boston)?
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