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Hi, Alexander!  Recently you wrote in a message to Ardith Hinton:

AH>  The author, BTW, is generally known Over Here as
AH>  A. A. Milne.... :-)

AK>  It interesting how an Englishman would write this
AK>  second name if he had never seen it written? ;-)


          I noticed his middle name was identical to your first name.  Is that
what you had in mind?  The name is not uncommon in English, although it may be
shortened at times, and we spell it exactly as you do here.

          I've also noticed messages from other Russians who transliterate the
name with a few variations... however, their spelling makes sense to me.

          I guess if I'd never seen your name written down &/or you asked me
to approximate it phonetically I might spell it "A leg ZAN der".  But I doubt
your pronunciation would be very different from mine because the Russian
"Mikhail" & the equivalent "Michael" sound the same to my untutored Anglophone
ear....  :-)




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