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p4 wrekencjert may 8 1991 stux x mt k-l- v write us or fax us numbers dt right doctors incomes must face radical surgery news that the provincial government intends to apply its funding axe to doc tors was met with mixed reaction the greatest hue and cry was predictable on a radio phonein show the strongest opponents of these extreme measures were spouses of doctors the province intends to discount fees by 75 per cent for the first five years of practice for new general practitioners pediatricians and psychiatrists the one in seven gps who gross more than 250000 would take a cut of one third those grossing more than 275000 wouldtake a 66 per cent cut viewpoint paula crowell other cuts include a reduction in the kind of ser vices offered by ohip and elimination of afterhours premiums for certain hospi tal staff doctors work long hours often for extended periods of time they face highly stressful situations but did they enter this mentally and physically taxing field for money there is no doubt that doc tors perform very important functions some of them make life or death decisions every day and the skills of some of them are priceless its difficult to put a dollar figure on what they do but we must and we do and now the province is lowering that dollar figure for doctors at the low end and high end of the scale doctors lament that the yearly incomes bandied about in the media must also cover their overhead expenses but these same expenses are tax deductible there is a longstanding public perception that doc tors are wealthy little has changed in recent years to liilllllillllslll mmmmmmmmmmmmsfm mtmm iillliiiiiiiihhlluiii rub ww iwsisawwvirihrr by brian basset i vnrviiiiva tmsee r wppetnkkovemt hwbaivftto tn6si8ewb tuftwtflltol m change that perception doctors must realize that a taxfunded profession such as theirs must face the same cutbacks as other publicly funded labor pools while the cutbacks on new gps are harsh and should be lessened those relating to established physicians must stand faced with the present debt situation taxpayers cant afford to bear anymore unnecessary expense in health care markham economist and sun st0uffville tribune uxbridge tribune weekender edition a hettoland community newspaper pairiciapappas publisher jo ann stevenson editorukhief paula crowell editor andrew mair editor debraweller director of advertising barry goodyear director of distribution vivian oneil business manager pamela nichols operations manager mnrkhnm 2342200 sales 7987624 classi fied 2944331 stouflvilie 6402100 uxbridge 8529741 2948244 distribution and administration 9 heritage rd markham l3p 1m2 fax markham 2941538 stouflvilie 640- 5477 uxbridge 8524355 the markham economist and sun stouflvilie tri bune and uxbridge tribune published every wednesday and saturday is one of the mctroland printing publishing and distributing group of subur ban newspapers which includes ajax pickering news advertiser barrie advance brampton guardian burlington 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ferently and its not just words end ing in ough i grew up just down the street from a kid named bruce kahoon i thought i was astounded one day when i saw his last name writ ten out properly it was spelled colquhoun i have two friends with the surname mackay but one pro nounces it machi and the other says machay then of course theres macleod pronounced mac- lowd and mckeown pro nounced mickyewen and mclaughlin and mccullough and mceachern and well you get the idea some of the odd pronuncia tions are totally baffling oth ers have perfectly good expla nations the story behind the scottish name of home for instance during the 16th century battle of flodden field lord home who was one of the scot tish nobles tried to rally his troops to drive back the sasse- nachs lord home began wav ing a banner and shouting his name home home home his soldiers heard the shouts thought it sounded like a good idea turned on their heels and headed for home the story goes that the next day lord home decreed that the family name would hence forth be pronounced hyoom not that the scots have any j corner on the wpnky pronjunci- basic black 1 arthur black ation sweepstakes in britain you can find the rather mag nificent family moniker chol- mondeley its pronounced chumley there is also magdalen col lege in oxford pronounced mawdlin and worcester is wooster and leicester is lester and ulgham is uffim and a place on the south coast of england called mousehole the pronunciation should be fairly straightforward should it not we have mouseholes in canada except the british one is pro nounced mowzul strange pronunciations can trip up even the pros theres a story told in the halls of the canadian broadcasting corpo ration concerning how the late great lome green early in his career as an announcer once bungled a weather forecast on cbc radio the script gave the highs and lows for an ontario town named kapuskasing when lome read it it came out ka pus kasing oh well no surprise in a countiy that has a city spelled toronto but pronounced trawnna and a province spelled kwe beck but pro nounced kay bek could be worse we could have spanish pronunciations to contend with the way they do south of the border theres a story about a loud new york tourist stopping at a restaurant on the outskirts of mexia texas buttonholing a waitress and braying now lis- sen honey i want you to say very slowly and very clearly the name of this place were in okay the waitress says sure takes a deep breath looks right in the tourists eyes and yells very carefully daaaaaaairy queeeeeeeen