Mark A Mandel writes: I say it approx. as hwood FRYAAN tsee with the vowel of the first syllable very short, and FRYAAN as all one syllable; I'm using the "y" as a consonant, not a vowel, as in "nyooz" ("news" in some pronunciations). That's pretty close to mine, yeah. rone -- Light stupidity decays into heavy stupidity. This violates energy conservation, but that's stupidity for you. - Rich Holmes <rsholmes+usenet at mailbox.syr.edu>