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The partner of Senator Glass was Representative Steagall.

But the spelling is hard to hear from the pronounciation.

Henry B. Steagall - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Asked how to say his name, he told The Literary Digest it was stee-gall (like the words tea and gall), with equal stress on each syllable. He added, "This pronunciation is generally used throughout the South, and rarely used in the North. American northerners persist in stressing the first syllable and rhyming the name with 'eagle'."[1]


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by A swedish kind of death on Fri Aug 23rd, 2013 at 01:28:28 PM EST
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I wondered if, perhaps, de Gondi was utilizing some obscure metaphor when he referred to the Glass Seagull Act.

"It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."
by ARGeezer (ARGeezer a in a circle eurotrib daught com) on Fri Aug 23rd, 2013 at 01:50:58 PM EST
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I have heard it as Seagall, Segall, so Seagull is close enough.

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by A swedish kind of death on Fri Aug 23rd, 2013 at 02:49:55 PM EST
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I wrote off the top of my head or maybe slightly above the amygdula, w/o looking it up. Perhaps I have an association down under with glass seagulls, a memory image. I'm very bad with names and it's getting worse with age.
by de Gondi (publiobestia aaaatttthotmaildaughtusual) on Fri Aug 23rd, 2013 at 03:17:33 PM EST
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I don't know how many times I have googled 'Glass-Stegul' or some such variant to come up with the correct spelling. That is my recourse when spell check doesn't work or seems questionable. Google is a better, more flexible checker.

"It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."
by ARGeezer (ARGeezer a in a circle eurotrib daught com) on Fri Aug 23rd, 2013 at 07:07:54 PM EST
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Yup, despite doing my grad school in ... (none / 0)
... Tennessee, good Buckeye that I am, I pronounce it to rhyme with Eagle.

I've been accused of being a Marxist, yet while Harpo's my favourite, it's Groucho I'm always quoting. Odd, that.
by BruceMcF (agila61 at netscape dot net) on Sun Aug 25th, 2013 at 11:27:11 PM EST
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In Tennessee was it pronounced Stea gall, even accents on both syllables?

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by ARGeezer (ARGeezer a in a circle eurotrib daught com) on Mon Aug 26th, 2013 at 11:08:26 AM EST
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