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.
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. 