[Magdalen] My favorite name...recently
Grace Cangialosi
gracecan at gmail.com
Wed Mar 7 02:49:40 UTC 2018
One of the more unfortunate names I knew of was that of a junior high principal early in my teaching career. Stanley Dickoff. Junior high principal...can you imagine??!
> On Mar 6, 2018, at 6:51 PM, Scott Knitter <scottknitter at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> One should be thankful one doesn't live in Westphalia, Michigan, where
> everyone is named Koenigsknecht, Thelen, or Armbrustmacher.
>
> The first name I listed is often pronounced "K-13." :) Or massacred as
> "cunn-ISH-connect."
>
>> On Tue, Mar 6, 2018 at 5:44 PM, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> One of the columnists in the Washington used to do s column from time in
>> which he would give examples of people with perfect names for their
>> occupations. Some were pretty funny. The only one I can remember offhand
>> right now was Dr. Shue, pronounced “Shoo-ee.” He was, of course, a
>> podiatrist.
>>
>>> On Mar 6, 2018, at 5:21 PM, Allan Carr <allanc25 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> A podiatrist in town is named Dr. Payne. Pleasant fellow. I wonder what
>> kind of ribbing he got in school.
>>
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> Scott R. Knitter
> Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA
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