I think I might want to go around pronouncing it 'Wallis Mar'r'rinerr'r'ris" (the r'r'r' being the "r" vibrato, not sure of the normal convention fo representing that) that is going to draw some stares ;-)

Well, yeah, I'd say anything but the anglo-latin "VAL-iss MARE-in-air-iss" is gonna draw some stares. "Wallis" and "flawia" sound like some effete English aristrocratic lisp, old boy, tut tut and all that rot...

I'm a little dubious about the rolling r's. That would have a Spanish flavor to it, sort of a "Valles Mar-r-r-r-riner-r-r-ris! Ar-r-r-riba! Andale!" thing. Maybe that's how Mexican planetologists pronounce it? [Cue the cantina music]

I think that this topic is becoming a serious candidate for the silliest digression (Moebius?) on a thread in a good long time!

--R-r-r-r-r-oberto!