# How Do You Pronounce "Podkayne"?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-podkayne/680161>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [January 30, 2014, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-podkayne/680161 "2014-01-30T20:30:17Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![rhubarbarin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eb9ed0/32.png) [@rhubarbarin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rhubarbarin)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2014, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-podkayne/680161/61 "2014-02-01T20:04:42Z")

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> [@Amateur\_Barbarian](#):
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> We’re set in a future almost 300 years later, after almost inconceivable change, a massive internal war, two or three global wars and several eras of technological revolution, and I have a name common among the Founding Fathers. I can only find a few names among those not still in common use.

All of the names of the Founding Fathers (Benjamin, John, Alexander, George, Thomas, James) are still very popular boys and men’s names in the US.

However among the top 100 (which meansat least 3000 babies received each of those names) boys names for 2012 are ‘made-up’ purely American names such as Jayden, Kayden, Ryder, Jace, Bentley, Jaxon, Colton. Unusual and creative names are very common everywhere, and much more so for girls than boys. In a country where there are thousands of female babies RIGHT NOW being named Kennedy, Genesis, Neveah, Peyton, and Addison, one or 3000 named Katniss or Podkayne 500 years from now doesn’t seem like a stretch at all. Though I’m sure there will still also be Marys and Ashleys.

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**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2014, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-podkayne/680161/62 "2014-02-01T22:18:43Z")

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> [@Amateur\_Barbarian](#):
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> K’Boomch  
> Khajjjerrr  
> Rrringrrrilll
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> You’re right. Not very poetic. 🙂

When I win the lottery, my first act will be to institute a US$1,000 prize for any parent naming their new baby “K’Boomch.”

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**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2014, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-podkayne/680161/63 "2014-02-01T22:35:37Z")

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You’re probably too late.

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**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2014, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-podkayne/680161/64 "2014-02-01T22:51:44Z")

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> [@Amateur\_Barbarian](#):
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> You’re probably too late.

Possibly, though a search yields only 180 hits–all of which seem to be about _Red Planet_.

To be safe, though, I should restrict the prize to a combination: first child K’Boomch, second child Podkayne. (Or vice versa.) Extra bonus for a third child named Lummox.

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**Author:** ![Ranger\_Jeff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranger_jeff/32/2065_2.png) [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)\
**Post date:** [February 2, 2014, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-podkayne/680161/65 "2014-02-02T00:04:10Z")

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I wonder if there’s some poor kid with the name “Throatwarbler Mangrove Johnson”

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