mark by hand (was: the curious phonology of Wisconsin)

[FRITZ JUENGLING]

Mark,
I didn't know about the '15' meaning.  Names are often so interesting.  I have a kid whose last name is Breivogel.  He naturally thinks that it has something to do with birds, but such is not the case.  A Breivogel is not a bird, altho it probably alludes it one.
My last name gets slaughtered all the time.  I am used to it and even enjoy the variations I get.  ALmost no one here at the school can even spell it.  I've gotten about 20 different spellings on various notes.  Oh well. Pronunciations are just as amusing. My favorite happened recently when I was in a Chinese restaurant and paid with my plastic.  The lady who took it, who is from China, informed me "you have a Chinese name--zhueng- ling." Now, if you were to see me, you would never think I was Chinese. I don't know how she ever thought I could have gotten a Chinese name, but she was able to tell me what it means--something like 'trees in the mist' if I remember correctly.  It's all good:)
Fritz Juengling aka Zhueng-ling

>>> mamandel at LDC.UPENN.EDU 11/23/04 08:07AM >>>
FRITZ JUENGLING <juengling_fritz at SALKEIZ.K12.OR.US> asks:
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Just out of curiosity, are you sure it's 'mark by hand' and not 'mark almond
(or tonsil)?'
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i've always been pretty careful (obsessive) with my wording, punctuation,
capitalization, and so on. nowadays i usually use dragon naturallyspeaking
to type, and am pretty careful with it, although the occasional speako
escapes my notice. when typing by hand, as now, i minimize shifts, etc., and
sign "mark by hand" as an excuse to those who know about my tendinitis.

i know my last name means 'almond' in german. my grandfather's name was
mandelbaum. when my father enlisted in the us army in ww2 he shortened it. i
like to think his motive was to avoid a german-sounding name, rather than to
avoid a jewish-sounding one. sometimes i say he cut down the trees and left
only the nuts.

aha! i hadn't realized that it also means 'tonsil' (similar shape; french
also, "amygdale"?); thank you very much. but in this case, as you can see,
"by hand" is away from the tonsils!

it also means in some dialects '(group of) 15' in the same way that eng.
"dozen" is '(group of) 12'.

-- mark by hand