What's in a name?
My curious mind wants to know if there's an interesting etymological background to your name which you'd care to share.
Back in the 60s I worked with a Brit whose name was Iva Fishbone, and I had to keep myself from blurting out, "Is it stuck in your throat?" when I first met him.
FWIW my family name, originally spelled Wishnia, means either cherry tree or cherry in Polish, I'm not sure which, but I once saw an ad for a Polish chocolate covered cherry candy with our family name on the package.
Earlier this week I came across this college, which has quite a few marvelously descriptive last names among the members of its faculty and board.
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I wonder if it's graduates are jokingly referred to as "not the sharpest knives in the drawer."
Jeff