Letter to the editor:

Correction on pronunciation

Tue, Jun 19, 2018 (2 a.m.)

I enjoyed reading about Faneuil Hall in the June 9 edition (“Boston grapples with Faneuil Hall, named for a slaveholder”), as I won a Boston Herald Spelling Bee City Championship there in 1945 for grade 11.

However, the correct pronunciation of “Faneuil” is not “FAN-yul” as it is commonly mispronounced, but “FAN’l”. Even that is a change from “FUN-nel” as it was originally enunciated.

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