buryInterestingly enough, there is a newscaster named Chris Bury who fills in for Ted Koppel on
Nightline, and is Koppel's heir apparant should he ever leave. And Chris Bury pronounces his name bure-ee as in
jury. I guess the family changed the pronunciation to avoid the negative connotation. However, name entymology is usually pretty dead-on (unless the spelling's been changed, or they've been Anglicized or Americanized)...so, a millenium or so ago, when they were first attaching names, the first Bury was prolly a gravedigger...and originally pronounced that way.
(and if you were famed for intimidating the enemy by the menacing way you found of shaking your speare at them in the charge, well...
...good thing Will's forebears weren't known for dropping their speares, eh? Dropspeare would be such a bummer...but then, once it attained the same legendary status praps Dropspeare would bear the same respectful resonance after all?..it's the work, not the name, right?)
