Coffee as a last name

[Rowan McMullin]

I think so - if your first syllable rhymes with "toe" and your last rhymes
with "tea".

-Rowan

On Dec 4, 2007 7:46 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:

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> Is the pronunciation of "ko'fi" the same as my "koh-fee"?
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> Joel
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> At 12/4/2007 07:40 PM, Rowan McMullin wrote:
> >Kofi is a Ghanaian day-name.  It is pronounced ko'fi, and it means he was
> >born on a Friday.  The female counterpart is Afua.
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> >-Rowan
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> >On Dec 4, 2007 6:34 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
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> > > At 12/4/2007 04:18 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:
> > > >Does anyone know how Kofi Anan pronounces his first name? Just
> wondering.
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> > > I have only heard "koh-fee" from broadcasters.  (Please excuse my
> > > naive phonetics.)
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