[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.
>> 
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Scott R. Knitter
> Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA


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