On Feb 19, 2010, at 12:25 PM, Evan Schoenberg, M.D. wrote: > > On Feb 19, 2010, at 12:08 PM, David Smith wrote: > >> Ancona does have the advantage of being easier to spell. I'd be fine with it. > > Muscovy only loses out in my mind because its appearance isn't as > snow-leopardy.
It's been brought to my attention that Ancona has the disadvantage that its latter two syllables are a particularly impolite word for female genitalia in Portuguese. Muscovy gains traction! -Evan >> On Feb 18, 2010, at 6:23 PM, Evan Schoenberg, M.D. wrote: >> >>> I'm fond of real (but reasonably obscure) duck names, so ancona has my vote >>> of suggestions so far. >>> <250px-Ancona_Ducks.jpg> >>> >>> I picked up the machine at the Apple Store yesterday evening, btw. The >>> Apple Genius who helped me became pretty excited when he learned that the >>> Mini was to be the new Adium build machine – "Cool! I use Adium every day." >>> :) >>> >>> -Evan >> >> > >
