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How is the word Cosima pronounced? Is it cozima (as is rose / rOz) or cosima?
And, while at it :
Did John Diamond and Nigella Lawson name their children after Cosima Wagner and Bruno Walter, and if yes, Cosima seems a curious choice, siring Richard's children while she was still Von Bulow's wife, anti-semitic rants, and all.
  

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[nq:1]How is the word Cosima pronounced? Is it cozima (as is rose / rOz) or cosima? And, while at it ...

  • [nq:1]How is the word Cosima pronounced?
  • Is it cozima (as is rose / rOz) or cosima?
  • And, while at it ...
  • [/nq] Her daughter is named after a turn-of-the-century exotic dancer, Cosima Fan Tootie.
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[nq:1]How is the word Cosima pronounced? Is it cozima (as is rose / rOz) or cosima? And, while at it ... yes, Cosima seems a curious choice, siring Richard's children while she was still Von Bulow's wife, anti-semitic rants, and all.[/nq]
Her daughter is named after a turn-of-the-century exotic dancer, Cosima Fan Tootie.
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[nq:2]How is the word Cosima pronounced? Is it cozima (as ... she was still Von Bulow's wife, anti-semitic rants, and all.[/nq]
[nq:1]Her daughter is named after a turn-of-the-century exotic dancer, Cosima Fan Tootie.[/nq]
Now there a phrase needs updating. How many of us automatically assumed sometime around 1900? I did, 'til I caught myself.

Be interesting to plot the ages of th
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[nq:2]Her daughter is named after a turn-of-the-century exotic dancer, CosimaFan Tootie.[/nq]
[nq:1]Now there a phrase needs updating. How many of us automatically assumed sometime around 1900? I did, 'til I caught ... those who assumed 1900 and those, if any, who assumed 2000. I'm rashly assuming no one assumed 1800 or earlier.[/nq]
I don't think age has much to do with. It still *is* the
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"don groves" (Email Removed) wrote -
[nq:2]Her daughter is named after a turn-of-the-century exotic dancer, CosimaFan Tootie.[/nq]
[nq:1]Now there a phrase needs updating. How many of us automatically assumed sometime around 1900? I did, 'til I caught myself.[/nq]
1) A google search for Cosima Fan Tootie did not point toany exotic dancer.

2) Cosima, Nigella Lawson's daughter,
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[nq:2]Now there a phrase needs updating. How many of us automatically assumed sometime around 1900? I did, 'til I caught myself.[/nq]
[nq:1]1) A google search for Cosima Fan Tootie did not point to any exotic dancer.[/nq]
You might try googling for her under her family name, Cosima Van Tootie.
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[nq:1]How is the word Cosima pronounced? I[/nq]
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It's pronounced "COS-mo", as in Kramer from Seinfeld's 1st name.
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} It's pronounced "COS-mo", as in Kramer from Seinfeld's 1st name.

And Boomhauer from King of the Hill 's first name. And Topper from Topper 's first name.

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[nq:2]Now there a phrase needs updating. How many of us automatically assumed sometime around 1900? I did, 'til I caught myself.[/nq]
Me too. I still do.
[nq:1]1) A google search for Cosima Fan Tootie did not point to any exotic dancer.[/nq]
"Jess" was reminded of Mozart's opera Cosi Fan Tutte . He or she wasn't being nice, but they're all like that.
[nq:1]2) Cosima, Nigella Lawson
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[nq:1]Me too. I still do.[/nq]
[nq:2]1) A google search for Cosima Fan Tootie did not point to any exotic dancer.[/nq]
[nq:1]"Jess" was reminded of Mozart's opera Cosi Fan Tutte . He or she wasn't being nice, but they're all like that.[/nq]
OK, maybe I wasn't. But who's "they?"
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[nq:1]Cosima[/nq]
[nq:2]Me too. I still do. "Jess" was reminded of Mozart's ... or she wasn't being nice, but they're all like that.[/nq]
[nq:1]OK, maybe I wasn't. But who's "they?"[/nq]
Tutti. CDB

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