***You're of course making the assumption that Mr. Weisman (or eben more appropriately, others) actually used the German pronunciation instead of the Americanized "s" sound. ;-)***
I see your point, but I still don't understand why they didn't just spell it "Weissman." I've never bought the argument that saying, for example, "Weisman" as "Weissman" is okay because it's an "Americanized" pronunciation. To me, it's just wrong.
***But I wouldn't doubt that Sondheim didn't reverse engineer that - after all, he didn't do it for "Armfeldt / Charm felt" - given that that was the name in the Bergman film. :-)***
I was actually going to mention that I used to wonder if that rhyme was reverse engineered, but then I looked it up and found that, indeed, that's her name in the Bergman film. And, come to think of it, there's probably no reason why it would have occurred to Sondheim to use the phrase "she may hope to make her charm felt" if the name "Arrmfeldt" wasn't already in place for him to rhyme with. Whatever -- it's a BRILLIANT rhyme. |
