*really rolls over laughing*
Oct. 10th, 2009 01:54 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
grassangelSo, teachingbooks.net has this section on author name pronunciation. Neil Gaiman links to it occasionally, presumably because people always pronounce his name wrong. He linked to it again today, which is why I ended up going through their extensive list and clicking on all the authors I knew/authors who had interesting names. Some authors have some very interesting stories, some have vaugely embarrassing ones. Some are downright hilarious.
Like this one.
But it's hilarious because the CHINESE are totally doing this too, having only a pool of about 16 last names (which makes for a VERY confusing phone book) so they've decided that it's okay to hyphenate names.
And a few other places with very small pools of last names and all the people who decide that both partners will take each other's name when they get married.
Like this one.
...Wynne-Jones is a hyphenated name. That means there's a little DASH between the Wynne and the Jones. That's because the Welsh people have very few names. There's just Wynne, and Jones, and Gwyn and about three others. So they add them together and make Wynne-Jones and Gwyn-Jones and Wynne-Evans and Evan-Jones and... like that.
But it's hilarious because the CHINESE are totally doing this too, having only a pool of about 16 last names (which makes for a VERY confusing phone book) so they've decided that it's okay to hyphenate names.
And a few other places with very small pools of last names and all the people who decide that both partners will take each other's name when they get married.
