How do you pronounce "Hartshorne"? - MathOverflow most recent 30 from http://mathoverflow.net 2013-05-21T09:27:22Z http://mathoverflow.net/feeds/question/20283 http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/rdf http://mathoverflow.net/questions/20283/how-do-you-pronounce-hartshorne How do you pronounce "Hartshorne"? Beren Sanders 2010-04-04T04:49:21Z 2010-04-04T05:25:36Z <p>What is the "correct" pronunciation of Robin Hartshorne's last name? Mostly I hear it pronounced "Har-shorn" although I've also heard "Harts-orn" and maybe a few other variations.</p> http://mathoverflow.net/questions/20283/how-do-you-pronounce-hartshorne/20284#20284 Answer by Will Jagy for How do you pronounce "Hartshorne"? Will Jagy 2010-04-04T05:00:06Z 2010-04-04T05:00:06Z <p>He prefers it be pronounced as in Hart's Horn. I asked him a few years ago, our brief common ground being assisting Marvin Jay Greenberg with revisions for the fourth edition of his book on Euclidean and non-Euclidean geometry. That is not to say that I have ever heard anyone else say it that way. But then few people get my name right.</p>