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Re: 'ow about Hart? (fwd)
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The solution to this mystery might be in the intentional retention of
the "h" in "Hart," since, without it and following the speaker's
pronunciation pattern, the sound would be "art." Thus the sentence
would read "Hello, how about art?"--an amusingly Nabokovian question.
Marilyn Edelstein, English, Santa Clara U, California
medelstein@scuacc.scu.edu