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[Laurence Horn]

At 8:53 PM -0400 9/6/10, Dan Goncharoff wrote:
>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

More exotic than "13", a character (a.k.a. Remy Hadley) on "House".
Although she's pretty exotic in other ways.

LH

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>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:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>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
>>>
>>>  meanwhile, although the reports have been washing in for some
>>>time now, there's still no actual documentation.
>>>
>>>  arnold
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