>From: "Roblee, Phil" <[email protected]> >Subject: Pronunciation, believe it or not >Date: Thu, 2 Jul 1998 09:26:42 -0400 ... >This may sound really silly, but I'm curious about how you all pronounce >variants of our surname. I've spent a lot of time over the past few >decades correcting people who insist that "ROB'-LEE" should be pronounced >"ROBE'-LEE." I just took it for granted that every Roblee (or variant >thereof) pronounced the name with a short O...until the other day when my >son, Christopher, made contact with another Christopher Roblee...I think >he lives in Wisconsin...and that Christopher indicated his last name is >pronounced ROBE'-LEE (with a long O). >I don't think there's any question about the pronunciation off Robblee >(unless someone along the line decided the B should be pronounced like a >stutter...Ha). But there could be variations of Rublee, Raplee, >Robilliard, Rapalje. etc. I don't mean to clutter the e-mail network >with a lot of unnecessary chatter, but I'd really be interested to learn >of pronunciations that differ from the one to which I've become attached. > >Phil Roblee >