"Ima Hogg" redux

[Wilson Gray]

The surname, "Pyles," is itself right funny.

-Wilson

On 5/31/07, Doug Harris <cats22 at frontiernet.net> wrote:
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> Oh, and I used to know a Michael Hunt, who was _never_ called Mike. To his
> face, anyway.
> (the other) doug
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> I remind colleagues again that one of the best reads in American
> onomastics is Thomas Pyles' "Bible Belt Onomastics" (Names 7 [June
> 1959]: 84-200). There you will find parents much crueler than the
> Hoggs, Hoeres, and Hookers (e.g., the Days who named there daughter
> Pamela Gay; the Sweats, who named their daughter Alure; the
> Turnipseeds who named their daughter Etta, the Pickles who named
> their son Dill  (who became a pickle salesman); the Fails who named
> their son Never (who did not make it through high school), and on and
> on).
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> dInIs
> >
> >When I was a teenager, I once met a girl named "Emma Hoare." Now, I've
> >recently met "Anita Hooker."
> >
> >Some parents are absolutely merciless.
> >
> >-Wilson
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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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