I've been called many, many things in my life, but “whimsically surnamed”? That's new.
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by Michael Froomkin
Laurie Silvers & Mitchell Rubenstein Distinguished Professor of Law
University of Miami School of Law
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How do you pronounce that whimsical name?
Just the way it is spelled: froom’ kin (first syllable more or less rhymes with ‘broom’ if you have an American accent, but not if you have an English one).