I say Almanzo, do you say Almonzo?
“There is no one in the family to carry on the name of Almanzo. I am very sorry and wish some Wilder family would so name a son.”
Wilder, Laura Ingalls. Letter to Miss Webber. 11 February 1952.
If anyone out there is fortunate enough to have a last name of Wilder. I think this is a great idea. 😉 There were a number of Almanzos in New York state about the time he was born. Most traced back some how to a particular doctor that was very well thought of. I’m not sure where our Almanzo’s name came from, but I think (and this is only my opinion) that whole Crusader story was an embellishment of Rose’s.
It has always been a slippery name with being pronounced on the TV Show Al-MON-zo. The Hallmark radio version of The Long Winter also wrongly pronounced it this way. People (like the…
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I know how it’s *supposed* to be pronounced, but the TV show embedded the wrong way so deeply into my brain that that’s what usually comes out.
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