# Kinsey: Just curious...
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kinsey-just-curious/87181
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [October 13, 2001, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kinsey-just-curious/87181 "2001-10-13T01:57:56Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2001, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kinsey-just-curious/87181/1 "2001-10-13T01:57:56Z")
What does your name derive from? Kinsey Milhone? Kinsey Report? Is it one of your real names? Just curious, 'cause I like the sound of it.
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### Author:  [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)
#### Post date: [October 16, 2001, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kinsey-just-curious/87181/2 "2001-10-16T00:40:39Z")
Wow, a thread with my name on it.
Yes, it is my real name. It was my grandmother’s maiden name.
And I’ve heard enough Kinsey Report jokes to last a lifetime, thanks. As far as I know we are not related to **that** Kinsey.
As for Kinsey Milhone, she has made my life a little easier, in that when I have to give my name, now people know what I am saying.
No more, “Huh?”
“What?”
“No, I need your first name.”
“How do you spell that?”
Thanks for liking it. I like it, too. It went real well with my maiden name. Not so well with my unpronouncable Italian married name.
Oh, well.
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### Author:  [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)
#### Post date: [October 16, 2001, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kinsey-just-curious/87181/3 "2001-10-16T01:47:07Z")
I see! If you don’t mind a further question, what nationality is it?
[sub]I had an unpronouncable Italian maiden name; now I have a mellifluous Italian married name.[/sub]
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### Author:  [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)
#### Post date: [October 16, 2001, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kinsey-just-curious/87181/4 "2001-10-16T02:08:50Z")
It’s English, as far as we can tell. Most of my ancestors are English and Scottish.
My mother and one of my sisters are really into the geneology thing, but have run into some roadblocks trying to find older stuff on my dad’s side. Not too many records from long ago. Those poor peasant farmers weren’t worth keeping track of! 😉
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### Author:  [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)
#### Post date: [October 16, 2001, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kinsey-just-curious/87181/5 "2001-10-16T03:49:30Z")
I see. Well, neither were the Slovak peasants!
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### Author:  [@Esprix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esprix)
#### Post date: [October 16, 2001, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kinsey-just-curious/87181/6 "2001-10-16T04:38:20Z")
I was going to make a 0-to-6 reference, but couldn’t grasp one I liked.
Esprix
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### Author:  [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)
#### Post date: [October 16, 2001, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kinsey-just-curious/87181/7 "2001-10-16T05:41:04Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by Esprix \*
> **I was going to make a 0-to-6 reference, but couldn’t grasp one I liked.**
😕
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### Author:  [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)
#### Post date: [October 16, 2001, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kinsey-just-curious/87181/8 "2001-10-16T05:51:46Z")
Esprix was making a reference to the Kinsey scale by “not” making a reference to it. I can’t remember the word for it, but there’s a literary word to describe it.
Sort of like saying “And that’s even ignoring the fact that **Kinsey** used to have a pronounceable last name.”
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### Author:  [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)
#### Post date: [October 16, 2001, 7:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kinsey-just-curious/87181/9 "2001-10-16T07:14:09Z")
I see.
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### Author:  [@Darwins\_Finch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darwins_Finch)
#### Post date: [October 16, 2001, 7:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kinsey-just-curious/87181/10 "2001-10-16T07:44:08Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by iampunha \*
> \*\*Esprix was making a reference to the Kinsey scale by “not” making a reference to it. I can’t remember the word for it, but there’s a literary word to describe it.
>
> Sort of like saying “And that’s even ignoring the fact that **Kinsey** used to have a pronounceable last name.” \*\*
I believe the word you are looking for is **apophasis**.