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I have only ever known of one person by that name (a relative) and that person is a she, not a he. I didn't even make the connection between that and the character you posted about.
 
Its Aloo-isshus in the UK as well

Anyway, when I was still teaching, I had two Google search challenges that kids loved
1. What single word of at least 3 letters gives the maximum number of 'hits'?
2. Can you find a 'Googlewhack'? Two words that give exactly one result.

Of course, the answers to both change over time. Any takers?
 
Hmm, her name is pronounced Aloe wishus. Different again.
 
I think thats the same but difficult to write phonetically
 
Many things are difficult to write phonetically because you don't know for sure how it will be interpreted by others. My intent and understanding of what you and I wrote is that Aloo (as in "too") isn't the same as Aloe (as in ??) - rhymes with 'low'.
It's not a name you hear everyday, is it?
 
Whilst not a common name, I've known others even more unusual. For example, Titus, Licorice and Sextus.
Then there are some fairly unusual surnames where the spelling and pronunciation don't necessarily match.
How should these be pronounced? Featherstonehaugh & Cholmondeley

Anyway, any takers for either of my search challenges?
 
isladogs said:
Whilst not a common name, I've known others even more unusual. For example, Titus, Licorice and Sextus.
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If we want to get into unusual names, there's the recent addition of the name of Elon Musk's child. I'm not going to try and write it down!
 
L'll bite , it only because I've actually come across them both before

Featherstonehaugh & Cholmondeley
I believe the more common pronunciation is
Fanshaw & Chumley
 
Regarding pronunciation of Aloysius, ... when my wife and I travel to my family reunion in Alabama, she attends mass at St. Aloysius church in Bessemer. The (Irish) priest pronounces it like Aloe - ish- us with emphasis on "ish." Here in New Orleans there is a St. Aloysius school and they pronounce it the same way. So if Irishmen and Cajuns pronounce it the same way, there has to be a reason.

If you want to see some crazy names, can't beat south Louisiana. Though in these cases some of the pronunciations might be regionalisms. Here are a couple for you:

Yscloscky - the name of a small community down-river from New Orleans. Your first guess is probably going to be wrong.
Ouachita - the name of one of our parishes (counties to everyone else)
Tchopitoulas - the name of one of our streets in the uptown area of the city.
Nachitoches - a small town on USA Interstate 49 between Lafayette, LA and Shreveport, LA. Not to be confused with Nacodoches, TX.

Hint: Three of them are Native American words or proper names that were transliterated by French explorers.

Colin, the #1 item from #22 ought to be "bat" - which will give a lot of "hits." Didn't have to look that one up.
The #2 item is the proper name for a contest or challenge to find some two-word item that returns exactly one response.
 
Minty said:
L'll bite , it only because I've actually come across them both before

Featherstonehaugh & Cholmondeley
I believe the more common pronunciation is
Fanshaw & Chumley
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That is indeed correct. Typical olde English aristocracy!
I suspect that, like me, you first heard those surnames via the dance troupes called the Cholmondeleys and Feathersonehaughs.

So as Featherstonehaugh is pronounced Fanshaw, what is the correct pronunciation for the similarly spelt Featherstonehugh?
 
The_Doc_Man said:
Colin, the #1 item from #22 ought to be "bat" - which will give a lot of "hits." Didn't have to look that one up.
The #2 item is the proper name for a contest or challenge to find some two-word item that returns exactly one response.
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#1
That's nowhere near the highest number of hits from a single word
Bat got around 53 million hits. Microsoft gets almost 91 million.
I have one word that got 1,840,000,000 hits. Any ideas which?
Can that be beaten?
#2
I thought that was exactly what I described as a googlewhack challenge. Maybe I didn't explain it well enough.
Finding a googlewhack is a lot harder than it used to be
 
"Bat" probably get only about 53 million hits online but a bat as used in baseball has been getting hits for over 100 years in professional leagues alone. Your question was ambiguous in that it allows a different interpretation than you intended. But I can Google-search the sports records for the last 100 years for all baseball teams everywhere and I would bet I get quite a few hits.

Not only that, but with the corona virus and posts on all sorts of social media, I would expect "bat" to continue to increase for a few months yet.
 
Of course you are right - the meaning of 'hits' was ambiguous at least in your eyes.
But perhaps not as ambiguous as using a vase of flowers on a table in front of a window when you were representing a sill using a visual clue :rolleyes:
 
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