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From: michaelm@3comvax.UUCP (Michael McNeil)
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Subject: Re: Halley's Comet
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Date: Fri, 7-Feb-86 15:09:54 EST
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Posted: Fri Feb  7 15:09:54 1986
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In article <860205154812.158427@HI-MULTICS.ARPA> Slocum@HI-MULTICS.ARPA writes:
>> Halley's  [rhymes with "valleys"]
>
>I heard a radio news program that interviewed a descendant of Halley
>who said that everyone has got the pronunciation wrong. He said that
>it doesn't rhyme with "valley" or "daily", but rhymes with "volley".
>Haw-lee.  He should know, being a descendant.

*Science 85* last year mentioned that in Edmund Halley's time
people frequently spelled things phonetically and that Halley
himself usually spelled his name "Hawley."  Thus we know that
the descendant of Halley you heard is quite correct, and that
Edmund Halley did, in fact, pronounce his name as "Hawley."  

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Michael McNeil
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	If the number of the Fixt Stars were more than
	finite, the whole superficies of their apparent
	Sphere [i.e. the sky] would be luminous.*  
		Edmund Halley, 1720, "Of the infinity of the
		sphere of fix'd stars" and "Of the number,
		order, and light of the fix'd stars"

	*By today's reasoning the same temperature as the
	surface of the average star; this is known today as
	Olber's paradox, or the paradox of P. L. de Cheseaux
	(1744) and Henrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers (1826).