From: Jeffrey Gibson (jgibson@acfsysv.roosevelt.edu)
Date: Tue Oct 29 1996 - 21:19:02 EST
 
On Tue, 29 Oct 1996, Edward Hobbs wrote:
> I haven't time for this, but can't resist:
> 
> "Liddell" indeed pronounced his name "LIDD'l".  Why can't Americans get it 
> right?  Probably for the same reason we insist on mispronouncing Kittell 
> (KITT'l,  not Kit-TELL); when we see a name ending in -ELL, we have this 
> urge to accent the last syllable.
> 	More interesting:   Henry Liddell had a daughter, Alice Liddell, 
> who utterly fascinated a fellow don at Oxford, a mathematician name of 
> Charles Lutwidge Dodgson.  When she was 12, and he just over 30, he took 
> her boating and made up stories to tell her.  He later wrote them down, as 
> _Alice's Adventures in Wonderland_.  Little Alice was Alice LIDDell.  He of 
> course turned his middle and first names into Latin, and back to English, 
> to create the pen-name Lewis Carroll.
> 
> A VERY Greek matter indeed!   Next on the docket will be the 
> mispronunciation of the old Oxford master, Benjamin Jowett (most famed for 
> his [mis]translations of Plato). (Anyone know the grafitto about his name?)
> 
> Edward Hobbs
> Wellesley
> 
> 
I believe the grafitto runs something like:
     My name is Benjamin Jowett.
     I'm master of Baliol College.
     I know everything that there is to know
     and what I don't know isn't knowledge.
Not NT Greek indeed. But Oxford lore and therefore (tangentally) related.
Jeffrey Gibson
jgibson@acfsysv.roosevelt.edu
 
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