Do you just pronounce it like “Travises” like we do colloquially? Or is there some way to do it.
Travissiz
There’s a linguistics professor at MIT who I once heard say in a class (an Open Courseware class… I didn’t attend MIT or anything):
“We’ll speak no more of prescriptive linguistics except to mock it.”
However you want to say it, say it. Your particular style of speech is unique and beautiful and you should keep speaking that way.
I personally would pronounce it like “Travises”. As if pluralizing it. (“There are multiple Travises in the phone book.”) Makes it fairly clear. I guess that brings up the question what to do if there are multiple Travises who co-own something. “The Travises’ shared given name.” I think off the top of my head, I’d probably pronounce it like “Traviseses.” Cool!
“The Travises’ shared given name.” I think off the top of my head, I’d probably pronounce it like “Traviseses.”
I think the context in the quote is enough to know exactly what was meant without having to add an extra “es”
Recursive Travii