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Robin Wigglesworth?? Dude has the name of an Ayn Rand villain. I'm putting him on The List for sure.

...I just heard him pronounce his own name on an FT podcast. It's incredible

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33 sats \ 2 replies \ @adlai 25 Aug
heard him pronounce his own name

is it like "Stanley Featherstonehaugh Ukridge" or even the infamous "Psmith" ?

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no clue about those!

No, the "ggles" just sort of meshed into a weird soft vowel-sound

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52 sats \ 0 replies \ @adlai 25 Aug

they're from P.G. Wodehouse; I believe both characters named specifically to ridicule some of the more preposterous British abuses of the Latin alphabet.

Wikipedia pronounciation guides for both names are consistent with what I was told by the same folks who hoard old Wodehouse novels like patoshi coinbases.

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indeed... it's very, uh, unfortunate. (Though I just read about a guy named Richard Hooker... )

He's usually worth reading (=taking seriously), though he's not always great. He has a book on bonds coming out this year, which I'll be reading!

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