Ledasha redux

[David A. Daniel]

No, wait. I swear. It happened to my wife's cousin's brother's friend and he
swears he overheard it in a supermarket...
Heh, actually, this is guaranteed first hand, horse's mouth, my very own
friend named Noné.
DAD

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From: American Dialect Society [mailto:ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of
Doug Harris
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Subject: Re: Ledasha redux



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From: "David A. Daniel" <dad at POKERWIZ.COM>
To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Received: 10/13/2009 3:33:50 PM
Subject: Re: Ledasha redux


>The first of these blogs mentions that while punctuation in names is
>on the
>rise, it would be stripped out of data bases, so that Le-a would be
>listed
>simply as Lea. This no-punctuation or accents policy was the bane of
>a
>friend of mine as far back as the 1960's. Her first name was Noné
>(accent on
>the e and pronounced no-nay). But when dealing with anything
>involving a
>form or a db, it would of course show as First Name: None. Try
>spending your
>life explaining that one to bureaucrats...
>DAD


The only thing distinguishing that from the urban legend names is
the fact the story is told first, or second, hand. Otherwise, I'd be
inclined to doubt not even one parent wouldn't foresee no end
of problems with the name None'.
(The family name was Above', was it?)
dh

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