Date: Wed, 11 Oct 1995 22:06:19 -0700   Subject: Re: Ornery
Kathleen  All my life I've noticed that some people have a
tendency  to pronounce my name with three syllables.  "KATH' uh
LEEN''" or somethin'.  Presumably the same folks who add the
"uh" in the middle of Kathleen (a 2  syllable word as far as I
can tell) are the same folks who say athuhlete  (and drive me
crazy).  Ornery is different - losing a syllable, not adding a
superfluous one.  BTW, I say it with both the first r and 3
syllables and grew up in NY. Of  course, it's not really a word
I use a whole hell of a lot in any case.