Thanks for the explanation.

Believe it or not, I also get telemarketers who can't pronounce my name. "Bene", as in the Italian word for "good", is a popular guess. These must be the folks who washed out down at the car wash.


>It is Polish... the actual pronunciation would be more like pets-IN-a. My dad who used to be auburn haired, had a nickname in his youth: Red Piss-in-a-bed.
>I keep telling myself that one of the advantages of having a name that is at first glance difficult to pronounce is that I almost always know when a sales person or charity is calling on the phone.
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>Ed
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>>Cool - now I know how Pecyna is pronounced (sans lisp). What is that, anyway?
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>>>I don't get it?...
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>>>Jutht kidding. (th) <--- (thmile)
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>>>Ed PeTHeena
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>>>>LOL
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>>>>Here's an imponderable: how come the Lisp programming language wasn't spelled Lithp?
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>>>>>Hanging on that date thread, I heard a corny one the day before Cinco de Mayo... Star Wars Day... you know, May the 4th.
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>>>>>>Speaking of dates, it wasn't until I filled out my first referee card this afternoon that I realized today's date is pretty cool numerically (at least in MM/DD/YY countries) -- 5/6/7.
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