FILLIPH

11 Dec 2022 08:13 pm
cimorene: A sloppy, scribbly caricature of an orange and white cat (confused)
[personal profile] cimorene
OMG, Wax just reloaded the national news and there's an article about a cat named Filliph.

FILLIPH.

These Finns have simply named their cat FILLIPH because they don't understand English pronunciation and think that "ph" is pronounced "p" and the h is decorative.

(See also: Turku salon Spinx.)

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Date: 11 Dec 2022 09:42 pm (UTC)
laurenthemself: Rainbow rose with words 'love as thou wilt' below in white lettering (Default)
From: [personal profile] laurenthemself
I went to get my helix piercing redone the other day (back when I had it done in the 90s it was just a 'cartilage piercing', also they still did it with a gun, not a needle), and one of the kids waiting to have their ears pierced had their name spelt out to the front desk staff.

'It's Thea. F-F-H-E-A.'

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Date: 11 Dec 2022 10:07 pm (UTC)
laurenthemself: Rainbow rose with words 'love as thou wilt' below in white lettering (Default)
From: [personal profile] laurenthemself
The other child's name from the same family was Molly, which I assume was spelt Molly because the grandparent didn't feel the need to spell it out.

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Date: 11 Dec 2022 11:14 pm (UTC)
ilyena_sylph: Denali, a grey longhair, sitting on my lap with paws on keyboard during a Zoom meeting (photos: denali meeting)
From: [personal profile] ilyena_sylph
The kitty's name is a palindrome when pronounced, which i think is adorable.

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Date: 11 Dec 2022 11:48 pm (UTC)
krait: a sea snake (krait) swimming (Default)
From: [personal profile] krait
Should have been Fillip'h!

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Date: 12 Dec 2022 03:31 pm (UTC)
stranger: Zhaan from Farscape (Zhaan)
From: [personal profile] stranger
Considering the impenetrable patchwork maze of English pronunciation and spelling -- it's a capsule linguistic history, but it's *not* phonetic -- I can't find it in me to blame anyone for taking an odd h as decorative. Older SF fandom, with "ghod" and "bheer" and "fijagh" gloried in it.

In other news, "grok" is now in Merriam-Webster. Hee.

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