At  1:09 PM 12/6/94 -0500, Steve Weisfeldt wrote:
 
>As much as Gamere's mis-pronoucing (sp?) bothers me too, I know several
>people (a couple of who are Merrimack grads!) who also say "Merry-mack"!
>I always want to correct them but I've always felt that it'd be a little
>obnoxious for me to tell someone else how to pronounce the name of their
>own school!
 
Hey, that's not even the worst. There are Merrimack grads who are currently
professors at Merrimack who don't pronounce the name correctly. Their
excuse is that the Merry Mack pronunciation is a holdover from an affected
tradition from the late 60s and early 70s. I don't know if that is true,
but it might explain why some current graduates are a bit confused about
the correct pronunciation.
 
Dave Josselyn
Merrimack '93