Quote Originally Posted by seanachie View Post
JEFF:
I always enjoy your posts, and there was no misinterpretation , your insights are always interesting. I had an uncle name Aloysius and I know that name cause him a lot of grief, so I see your point. I also felt bad for a supplier I used to work with who was Vietnamese but had a name pronounced like an English expletive. Unfortunately she was embarassed and adopted an "american" name.

PS my youngest brother is a pediatrician sound like that is the kind of medicine you practice.
I used to be a pediatrician and now am a pediatric radiologist, but still sometimes see literally hundreds of kids names in a single day, and usually have to try to pronounce them as part of the dictation of report process, and frequently in front of parents during some procedures. An interesting challenge, but one that my romance languages/home room teacher in high school said my language skills were up to.

Speaking of unusual names, my family tells the story of one of my great uncles whose name was Eurastus, and who went by Euras for short. One day while he and his brother were working on the roof he fell off a 10 foot ladder, landing rather hard on the ground. My other great uncle looked over the edge of the roof to check on him and hollered down "ya' hurt, Euras?" to which he replied "No but I skinned my elbow." True story.

We now return to your regularly scheduled programming. Sorry for the threadjack.