Brutkey

Ross of Ottawa
@ottaross@mastodon.social

Noticing someone with a double-barrelled last name and long first name.

Made me remember a person I met with a triple hyphenated last name! Must've been tough to wield day-to-day!

A #poll…

For your regular every-day name, eg introducing yourself (not your full legal name) how many syllables does it take to say it?

#names #syllables

• 1 to 3 (0)
• 4 to 7 (0)
• 8 to 13 (0)
• 14 or more (0)

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Ross of Ottawa
@ottaross@mastodon.social

I'm lucky with just 3 syllables, though my surname is weird (Finn) and needs spelling.

I always envied people I'd hear on the phone at work who could just say their name and it was clear how to spell it…
"Hi this is Dave Smith, can I check my order?"

More annoying must be a name that sounds ordinary but you have to spell it still:

"Hi it's Deayve Smith - that's spelled Dee ee ay vee aych ee," Condolences my friends. 😆

Ross of Ottawa
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I've had some Tamil colleagues with super long names - that must be hard to use in western countries.

rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua
@GustavinoBevilacqua@mastodon.cisti.org

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Do you remember "Chef Boy-ar-dee"?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ettore_Boiardi

Ross of Ottawa
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@GustavinoBevilacqua@mastodon.cisti.org Oh yes - ha! Didn't know he was a real person.

So American - no way people could deal with a slightly different name spelling. Maybe it's changed a bit these days, but certainly not in the 1930s - 50s.

rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua
@GustavinoBevilacqua@mastodon.cisti.org

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Probably my wife is some very far relative, since he came from the same small village where my father in law was born, where families were intertwined a lot.

Ross of Ottawa
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@GustavinoBevilacqua@mastodon.cisti.org Oh neat! Makes extra demand for her in making pasta!

…Or maybe not, it's easy to do a better job than the canned stuff. 🤣