On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 06:41:33 M +0200, Igor Meerovich wrote:
> Could anybody clarify for me whether his name should be pronounced with "ou" 
> (as
>  
> two syllables) or with long "o" ?
> 

Long "o". The combination "ou" is one of the conventional ways
of writing long "o" in romanized Japanese. Since the more technically
"correct" romanizations use non-ASCII characters to put a mark above
the vowel, you see "ou" used a lot in e-mail.

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    Albert Lunde          Albert-Lunde@northwestern.edu (new address)
                          Albert-Lunde@nwu.edu (old address)