"Ima Hogg" redux

[James Smith]

And my friend Richard Blower, who was called Dick to
his face because he pronounced his last name as though
it were Blougher (plow - plough).




--- Doug Harris <cats22 at FRONTIERNET.NET> wrote:

> Oh, and I used to know a Michael Hunt, who was
> _never_ called Mike. To his
> face, anyway.
> (the other) doug
>
> ----------
> 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).
>
> 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
> >--
> >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.
> >-----
> >
> -Sam'l Clemens
> >
>
>------------------------------------------------------------
> >The American Dialect Society -
> http://www.americandialect.org
>
>
> --
> Dennis R. Preston
> University Distinguished Professor
> Department of English
> 15C Morrill Hall
> Michigan State University
> East Lansing, MI 48824
> 517-353-4736
> preston at msu.edu
>
>
------------------------------------------------------------
> The American Dialect Society -
> http://www.americandialect.org
>
>
------------------------------------------------------------
> The American Dialect Society -
> http://www.americandialect.org
>


James D. SMITH                 |If history teaches anything
South SLC, UT                  |it is that we will be sued
jsmithjamessmith at yahoo.com     |whether we act quickly and decisively
                               |or slowly and cautiously.



____________________________________________________________________________________
Pinpoint customers who are looking for what you sell.
http://searchmarketing.yahoo.com/

------------------------------------------------------------
The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org