>>>>Now Alan, I can pronounce your name. Does that make me nobody? :)
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>>>Rhymes with Kung-Pow, as in Kung-Pow Chicken. ;-)
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>>At the end of Popow, the 'ow' is pronounced as in 'slow'. Is that how Kung-Pow is pronounced? I've always pronounced the 'ow' in Kung-Pow as in 'brow'. Of course, I'm not an expert on Oriental pronunciations, so I'd like to know for sure. Maybe that's why whenever I ask for Kung-Pow chicken, I end up with Colonel Sanders. ;)
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I used to tell people it was pronounced "Jones" because, well, it's my last name and I can pronounce it however I want.

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>I know one thing, I've tried the real down and dirty Chinese food, and I couldn't stomach it.

My friend Lynn and I love dim sum. One day we went to a place near my house called Ruby's on the advice of a Chinese friend. There was not one thing on any of the carts that either of us recognised. We are now happily back to the Canadian Chinese dim sum places where they serve authentic and palatable fake Chinese food.

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>>>>>Believe me, had I ever been married, I'd have gladly taken my wife's name. Nobody knows how to pronounce Popow, which is a corruption anyway of Popov (or Popoff, your pick).
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>>>>>Because of my last name, my nickname growing up was 'Pappy'. My younger brother was 'Little Pappy'.
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>>>>>>I see less and less spouses here in Quebec taking the name of the other spouse. My wife have kept her name and I've kept mine. My only daughter have my name (Tremblay is way too common here :), but if we had another child, he/she would surely have taken my wife name.
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>>>>>>>To the best of my knowledge, it's perfectly acceptable in Canada. The way the law reads allows a spouse to adopt the name of the other spouse. It doesn't refer to man or woman or hermaphrodite. There are small catches here and there. In many provinces, when you adopt your wife's/husband's name, your birth certificate remains unchanged, so you can use it as ID if you want to use or go back to your original name, but here in Ontario, your birth certificate changes too.