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Show Nam DtSJIiralt to Fronoane. While Professor Vlrchow has bees an Indefatigable worker In science and politic all bis lire, on one thing h surrendered, years ago, convinced that It was useless to struggle against his fate any longer. This thing wsa th pronunciation of his nam. The English, Eng-lish, the French, the Italians, tha Russians, Rus-sians, all hud their own way of accosting accost-ing him, and even the Germans generally gen-erally got It wrong, most of them addressing ad-dressing him as "Wlrcho" (the German W being pronounced like th English V). The correct pronunciation, according ac-cording to the professor, la Flrcho (th I being like I In pin, and the cb being, of course, pronounced In th Oermaa way). New York Post |