From: nebusj-@-rpi-.edu   
      
   Jim Ellwanger  writes:   
      
   >In article ,   
   > nebusj-@-rpi-.edu (Joseph Nebus) wrote:   
      
   >> 	- How'd he get his 'Big Poppy' nickname?  He's bad with names   
   >> (``Do you know who I am right now?''  ``No.'')  So he called people   
   >> Poppy.  And it came back to him.   
      
   >Not a baseball fan, are you?  His nickname is spelled "Big Papi."   
      
   	I'm a reasonable-sized fan, I'd just never seen it on screen.   
   (I don't follow the sports pages in the newspaper except when something   
   really remarkable is going on, like the Phillies hitting 10,000 losses   
   for their whole history or the Mets running up 2,000 losses in September   
   alone.)   
      
      
   >In other news, I've been enjoying Sondre Lerche's music for quite a   
   >while now (I have all his CDs except the "Dan in Real Life" soundtrack,   
   >which is brand-new anyway), and this was the first time I've heard his   
   >name pronounced -- I'd been assuming his last name was "lurch," but now   
   >I have to retrain myself to call him "lur-kay" instead.   
      
   	Yeah, this one is a difficult name for me because *boy* does   
   that pronunciation not go with that orthography.  I would have a similar   
   problem when a student's name would take a perfectly respectable foreign   
   name and pronounce it by the usual rules of English sounds; it makes the   
   name sound perfectly wrong when I could pronounce it fine if they'd just   
   let it be Polish or Turkish or whatnot.   
      
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   								Joseph Nebus   
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