Sinister: Berkely or Berkely

[tmalone3 at xxx.net]

On  2 Mar, vu sleeper wrote:
>>me the perfect occasion to ask what the deal with Berkely is.  Why is
>>it that Berkely the college is pronounced Berkly, while Berkely the
>>philosopher is pronounced Barkly? Then there is the Magnetic Fields 
> 
> Maybe it's because it's spelled differently ?
> http://www.berkeley.edu/
> 
They're spelled the same.  Just pronounced differently.

Tim

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