Cute picture, Barrels!
My high school English teacher, Miss Stiff, married a guy named Gary Cox. Wisely, she did not hyphenate, but that didn’t stop 150 snickering teenagers from hyphenating her name for her at every opportunity.
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I pity the child in my son’s nursery class who goes by the name of Swallow-Koch. I mean, what are these people thinking? :smack:
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To be fair, I’ve met people named Koch who pronounced it “Cook”. In fact, I’d met enough of them that I was surprised when I found out the former Mayor of NYC, Ed Koch, pronounced it “kotch”. How does this kid’s family pronounce it?
Ha ha! I had a junior high English teacher (on whom I had a big crush … she was young and blond and pretty and wore short skirts … ahem) named Miss Buzzard. I heard she got married some time after I moved on to high school, but I never heard her husband’s name. I’m now imagining an English teacher name Mrs. Buzzard-Bates. 