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in reply to a message by Siri
People with different accents are going to hear different similarities, of course.
Do you have a reference to how Chris Carter chose the name? That would be very interesting. :)
But the pronunciation of "molder" given in the dictionaries I have available rhymes it with words like colder and bolder. And in my experience people rhyme the first syllable of Mulder with words like dull and gull. And "molder" doesn't seem to me to be a commonly used word in modern American English. It sounds a bit archaic to me, and I think most people are only familiar with it because of the historical Civil War song that includes the phrase "John Brown's body lies a-moldering in the grave." So I still don't think the average person would automatically make that association.
But everyone is of course free to have his or her own opinion. :)
Do you have a reference to how Chris Carter chose the name? That would be very interesting. :)
But the pronunciation of "molder" given in the dictionaries I have available rhymes it with words like colder and bolder. And in my experience people rhyme the first syllable of Mulder with words like dull and gull. And "molder" doesn't seem to me to be a commonly used word in modern American English. It sounds a bit archaic to me, and I think most people are only familiar with it because of the historical Civil War song that includes the phrase "John Brown's body lies a-moldering in the grave." So I still don't think the average person would automatically make that association.
But everyone is of course free to have his or her own opinion. :)
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