Ross of OttawaI've had some Tamil colleagues with super long names - that must be hard to use in western countries.
rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua@ottaross@mastodon.social
Do you remember "Chef Boy-ar-dee"?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ettore_Boiardi
Ross of Ottawa@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@ottaross@mastodon.social
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@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. 🤣