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Glasgow, Scotland |
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j ee k l
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Scots |
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Letter to the Times, Nov. 28, 1980:
Sir,
Mr Roger Lancelyn Green (25 November) asks whether it is known how Robert Louis Stevenson intended the name of Dr Jekyll should be pronounced. Fortunately a reporter from the San Francisco Examiner, who interviewed Stevenson in his hotel bedroom in San Francisco on 7 June 1888, asked him that very question:
‘There has been considerable discussion, Mr Stevenson, as to the pronunciation or Dr Jekyll’s name. Which do you consider to be correct?’
Stevenson (described as propped up in bed ‘wearing a white woollen nightdress and a tired look’) replied: ‘By all means let the name be pronounced as though it spelt “Jee-kill”, not “Jek-ill”. Jekyll is a very good family name in England, and over there it is pronounced in the manner stated.’
Yours faithfully,
Ernest Mehew |
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north of england |
| Pronunciation: |
J:jug ee:see k:key uu:put l:let
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scottish |
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From the book about Dr.jekyll and Mr.Hyde |
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Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA |
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J EH - k uh l
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Jeckel |
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Made famous by the 1886 novella by Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson, "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde." |
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Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA |
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JEH-kull
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| Type of Name: |
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Europe, specific country unknown |
| Alternate Spelling(s): |
Jeckel |
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Made famous by the 1886 novella by Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson, "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde." |
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