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If you clear your throat violently, you get a sound like the Scottish ch, only worse. OK? Where I live there's a very pretty lake in wooded mountains - a dam, actually - called Agatha but pronounced ah-CHAH-tah. A friend of mine took some light reading into the maternity ward with her once, and a friendly nurse commented on her choice: "Do you like as-CHAH-tah Christie?"

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