So, somebody elsewhere mispelled Siobhan
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conulyand so I looked up the name and it turns out it's Yet Another Variation on John, passing through French before arriving in Irish. I don't know why I was surprised.
On a related note, I once got into it with somebody who said that Irish names are impossible to read unless you already know how they're pronounced. No, they just don't follow English orthography. It just bugged me. Nobody would say that of Spanish names and words, would they? No, so they can apply the same logic to other languages. Irish orthography is pretty transparent, you only need to know how to read it. It's not actually magic.
LOL, though since I'm bringing up random commentary on names, that does remind me of the time I was at the Children's Museum and bumped into a class group. And I guess one child had never seen his friend's name written out before, because he looked at his friend's name tag and said "Your name is Jose? That's not right, you're Hozay!"
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On a related note, I once got into it with somebody who said that Irish names are impossible to read unless you already know how they're pronounced. No, they just don't follow English orthography. It just bugged me. Nobody would say that of Spanish names and words, would they? No, so they can apply the same logic to other languages. Irish orthography is pretty transparent, you only need to know how to read it. It's not actually magic.
LOL, though since I'm bringing up random commentary on names, that does remind me of the time I was at the Children's Museum and bumped into a class group. And I guess one child had never seen his friend's name written out before, because he looked at his friend's name tag and said "Your name is Jose? That's not right, you're Hozay!"
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Loud and Clear: When See-Through Telephones Ruled the ‘90s
Who Has the Best View of the Chrysler Building? These Bees.
Woodworker Finds 115 Stuffed Animals Used As Insulation in the Walls of a Farmhouse He’s Renovating (I keep reading that as "woodpecker".)
I never realized armadillos are so playful they are basically cat turtles, this is wonderful
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