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[Wilson Gray]

It may have, when he was in the third grade! Needless to say, the
overwhelming number of BE surnames originated in the British Isles.
Hence, non-British surnames tend to sound strange to us, until we've
been out of the 'hood for a while. When I first heard the Flemish
names, Hickenlooper and Hoogstraet, on the first day of high school as
the teacher was calling the roll, I nearly burst into laughter.
Fortunately, I noticed just in time that no one else in the classroom
found anything ridiculous about those names.

Namedrop: Are you familiar with the movie, "Slingblade"? The director,
George Hickenlooper, Jr., is the son of that same Hickenlooper.

-Wilson

On 2/22/07, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
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> At 5:13 PM -0500 2/22/07, Wilson Gray wrote:
> >When I was in the third grade, a group of us followed Lee Lanier
> >around, chanting,
> >
> >"Lanier is a Frenchy name!"
> >
> >It made him cry.
> >
> >-Wilson
>
> I somehow doubt it would have had the same effect on Bob Lanier, the
> center for the Pistons and Bucks with the 6'11"/250 lb. frame and the
> legendary size 22 shoes.
>
> LH
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> >On 2/21/07, David Bergdahl <dlbrgdhl at gmail.com> wrote:
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> >>On 2/21/07, Charles Doyle <cdoyle at uga.edu> wrote:
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> >>>  And this (unAmerican?) pattern seems to be spreading. For example, the
> >>>  Atlanta zoo called Zoo Atlanta.
> >>>
> >>>  --Charlie
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> >>Un-American, like "Lake Erie" or "Canal Winchester" (a suburb of Columbus)
> >>or  many other Frenchy names?
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> >>:-)
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
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-Sam'l Clemens

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