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Help[Opinions] Re: Fleda
in reply to a message by Wordsmith
I would pronounce it "flay-dah". It reminds me of Die Fledermaus, the Strauss opera from the 1870s, two decades before James' book was published. The first syllable is pronounced "flay". A fledermaus is a bat.
"Vetch" is the name of a plant. It's sometimes considered a nuisance plant, an invasive weed, although I like it (pretty purple flowers, bees like it, and it has uses in farming). I don't know whether James had any of this symbolic meaning in mind when he named his character, though.
"Vetch" is the name of a plant. It's sometimes considered a nuisance plant, an invasive weed, although I like it (pretty purple flowers, bees like it, and it has uses in farming). I don't know whether James had any of this symbolic meaning in mind when he named his character, though.
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