Oh, I should have mentioned "Bong" (my spiel on "Pedro" is boring; you
don't know me by that name anyway). It is pronounce "bong" and it
doesn't really mean anything. I come from a country with door-bell
names. Bang (usually a girl), Bong (usually a boy--a junior...more on
that later), Bing (girl) and Beng (girl); there are Dang (girl), Dong
(boy), Ding (boy again), Deng (girl) but no Dung (that could lead to
poo jokes). But the latter is understated because we do have
nicknames which means something else in another dialect ("Epot" is a
short for April in Cebuano but means poo is Tagalog).
"Bong" is a nickname for "juniors" (I'm Pedro Manayon Jr.); google the
former dictator Ferdinand Marcos and he has a son, Ferdinand Jr., who
is known as "Bong Bong". That is common in the Visayan region (my dad
and the wife of Marcos came from that region); up north it is "Jun".
Doubling the name ("Jun Jun") just adds to its cuteness factor. Yeah,
we have no problem here with cute names--like I have a cousin named
"Baby Boy" or "Babes"; I know folks named "Cherry Pie" and other names
that you would have you teased out of American high schools. Our
current president (Benigno Aquino III) goes by his nickname "Noy-Noy"
which can mean "little boy". His dad, martyred by Marcos was known as
"Ninoy"...
We also follow popular trends and personalities, so I know quite a
number of ladies (my age) born in the early 1960s named "Marilyn" or
for that matter "Diana" in the early 1980s. I wonder why? :-)
Usually we are given really formal sounding names in our birth
certificate ("my name is Miguel Edward Z. Rodriguez, but you can call
me 'Boy' for short...") but its rare that we move through life with it
except to sign some formal or legal documents. We usually are known
here for our cutesy nicknames which essentially should be our real
names anyway...
Bong :-)
On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 5:57 AM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote:
> We've got people from a wide range of cultures on this list, and there are a
> lot of folks with names that I can only guess at the pronunciation. Names
> which may be common in one culture are pretty rare in Central California.
>
> I haven't heard much variation in the pronunciation of Larry, but the two
> common mistakes are to misread Colen as Cohen, or to pronounce it the way
> everyone but Colin Powell pronounces Colin. It's pronounced like Cohen, but
> with an "L" rather than an "H": Koe-len.
>
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