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Mike Thaler |
A recording introducing and pronouncing Mike Thaler.
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Mike Thaler: Hello, my name is Mike Thaler. I've been writing children's books for over 40 years, that's a long time. Some people pronounce my name, 'Thauler.' Now, Thauler is the way they pronounce it in Europe, because it originally came from Austria. And a 'tal' is a valley, and the silver that they put into a dollar came from the tal, valley, so they called it a taller, and that evolved into Thaler, which is what they say in Europe. But here in America, I've always been Thaler, Mike Thaler. Bye-bye.
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