Johnita Walker

Just saw your article about Halley Comet. My name is Stephen Halley Walker and my family goes back to Sir Edmund Halley. In 1986 the planetarium in Oklahoma City had what they called "The Second Time Around Club". They invited any one that was old enough to remember its passing the first time to meet and tell of their experience. My grandmother insisted we go so we went. The moderator asked if any one there was a Halley and about 3-4 of us raised our hands. Then he asked how we pronounced it and we told him "as if it was spelled Holly". He told us that the official scientific pronunciation Halley with a long A, everyone in the family pronounces it Holly but most people use that hideous Halley as in alley. Want to aggravate a Halley? Pronounce it as Osgood did !