Tidbit for the day:
When Machen was asked how to say his name, he told The Literary Digest “The first syllable is pronounced like May, the name of the month. In the second syllable the ch is as in chin, with e as in pen: may’chen. In Gresham, the h is silent: gres’am.”
Was he rhyming his reply? I like that “Tidbit” for the day.