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[Dan Goncharoff]

Didn't Charles Schulz already walk this path when he named one of his
characters "5"?

http://comics.com/peanuts/1963-09-30/

The character's full name was 5 94572, his father having changed the
family's surname to their (recently introduced a few months before)
ZIP code.

DanG

On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 3:49 PM, Garson O'Toole
<adsgarsonotoole at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On the topic of names containing characters that are not in the
> alphabet, I recall seeing the byline "Jennifer 8. Lee" in the New York
> Times. Here is a link to an archive of her articles and a Wikipedia
> link.
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> http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/l/jennifer_8_lee/index.html
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer_8._Lee
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> Michael Quinion spotted the name back in 2008 and wrote about it to
> the ADS list. There is additional discussion in the ADS archive.
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> http://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0804A&L=ADS-L&P=R13105
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> Garson
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> On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 10:29 AM, Arnold Zwicky <zwicky at stanford.edu> wrote:
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>> On Sep 6, 2010, at 5:28 AM, Ben Zimmer wrote:
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>>> On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 8:07 AM, Charles C Doyle <cdoyle at uga.edu> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Not the same topic, really, but this is still about vocalized (or "oralized") punctuation marks:
>>>>
>>>> One of my students insists that she attended high school with a girl who spelled her name
>>>> L--a and pronounced it "la dash ah" (the "dash" should appear as a solid line, probably).
>>>>
>>>> I shared the information about L--a with a friend who teaches in elementary school, and
>>>> she reported a similarly named student in her school:  K--a.
>>>
>>> I posted these links to Laura Wattenberg's three-part blog post last
>>> year, since "Ledasha" (+ variants) has come up here in the past:
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>>> http://www.babynamewizard.com/archives/2009/10/ledasha-legends-and-race-part-one
>>> http://www.babynamewizard.com/archives/2009/10/ledasha-legends-and-race-part-two
>>> http://www.babynamewizard.com/archives/2009/10/ledasha-legends-and-race-part-three-of-three
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>> meanwhile, although the reports have been washing in for some time now, there's still no actual documentation.
>>
>> arnold
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