>>>>>>Come on, Charles ... get your Garys straight, will ya? I see that Mike has already informed you, but I can see how DeWitt and Wynne can be easily confused. There's that big confusing "W" there. <g><g><g>
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>>>>>I think it was the "e" that threw him off.
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>>>>I think it is 'nn' and 'tt'. Double consonants can confuse anybody.
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>>>Wow! I think you've *both* got the answer! Why didn't I think of that? Why didn't Charles think of that? <g>
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>>Because if S is silent, he didn't think it through to see whether nn was nilent or tt tilent ;).
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>Now *I'm* confused!

Ok... stay so until I remember what I meant... ah yes, in names ending in ss, you don't read both esses, do you? I mean, this is not Hungarian, there are no long consonants. So the other s is silent... and so by analogy, ... you do the math.