Welcome Back, Kotter was one of my favorite TV shows when I was growing up. I watched this show from the time I was 6 all the way up into adulthood, so I know the names of the actors very well.
Now, in 2017, I check the date of the death of one of the actors and find that his name is spelled differently. Robert Hedges is now Robert Hegyes.
First of all, "Hegyes" looks really weird. If it had been spelled like this back in the day, I surely would not have known how to pronounce it, especially as a child.
Wikipedia has the nerve to tell us how to pronounce "Hegyes", but we already know since at one time, it was spelled the way it's pronounced!
This person spelled it "Hedges" in a comment on the obituary of his co-star, Ron Palillo, who died a few months before him.
There is no shortage of the spelling, "Hedges"
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