Strong Verbs Are Just Better

Guggi Q?! Good heavens. Does this poor unfortunate creature have a surname, seeing as Bono is simply... Bono?

Guggi Q. Woah.

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i don't know about the surname, actually...

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Hewson? Presumably? Surely he wouldn't be so cruel as to give his baby a stage name?

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depends if hewson is bono's surname or just mum's. kid could be elijah something-hewson

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Ah, yes - Bono's real name is Paul Hewson.

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then i assume out long-tailed monkey of a child is a Hewson in turn ;)

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At least it's got a normal surname so it can retain some shred of dignity... Dear oh dear.

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indeed. Elijah Hewson isn't so bad. Elijah Bob is still good... it's Guggi Q that's the problem!

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From memory, Bono's full name is Bono Vox. A sort of surname, if rather cheesy :P

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Surely that would be what was printed in the liner notes of their albums? As in-
Bono Vox
The Edge Guitar
Other two people whose names noone remembers followed by their instruments.

:P

Because, heck, if he CHOSE Bono Vox as his stage name, good heavens. That's pretty ordinary. :P

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but kinda cool- it'd be latin for Good Voice, i'm thinking?

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Nono, that's EVEN WORSE. And insufferably arrogant. :P I don't personally even think it's that amazing, so there. ;)

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*folds*

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I just don't particularly like Bono. Nothing personal. :)

Y'know, your last comment conjured up entertaining mental images... hmm, I think I must be tired, it was only one word. :P

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:P sadly, i'm not a bendy person at all...

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All the more entertaining. ;)

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glad to be of amusement, o Ian!

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I think that's why he chose it.

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From wiki (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bono):

He attended Mount Temple Comprehensive School, a mixed faith (both Protestant and Catholic) school, which was the first of its kind in Dublin. It was there that he acquired the nickname "Bono Vox of O'Connell St."

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His nickname "Bono Vox" – usually shortened to "Bono" – is an alteration of Bona Vox, a brand of hearing aid for which the Latin translates to "good voice". Bono was given the moniker by his mates because it was the name of a shop or a hearing aid company's advert they regularly passed on North Earl Street, just off O'Connell Street, in Dublin or on the corner of Dame Street and South Great Georges Street in Dublin's city centre. A different theory says he was nicknamed after a hearing aid shop by his friend Gavin Friday because he sang so loudly he seemed to be singing for the deaf. Initially, Bono did not like his new nickname. However, when he learned it could be translated to "good voice", he accepted it. "Bono Vox" literally means "The voice to the good man", Vox, the subject and Bono, the indirect object.

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oh, i like the indirect object translation :)

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McCumhail sounds took much like a McAdjective-Meal.

How are you pronouncing that, just out of interest?

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Cool. Which the Old Irish tutor tells me is correct

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Yup yup, it sure is! I was wondering if you were pronouncing it like Coo-Meal! Cos of the macdonalds thing. :)

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heh, no, it's McCheesy enough as it is!

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well, McCool, obviously

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I went to school with someone called Finn :D

And as for odd names, I've just read that Brangelina have lumbered their new baby girl with the name "Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt". Lucky girl! And since she's a girl...shouldn't it be "Nouvelle" anyway?

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hehe, it was young Shiloh that sparked the article on stupid celebrity baby names which i was reading...

indeed, it should be nouvelle... and had she been male it ought to have been nouveau, Jolie not starting with a vowel. Unless we're to pronounce it Yolie?

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Even so, doesn't the Y act as a consonant in this case?

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i don't know, i can't think of any french words begining with Y. In fact i can't think of any french words with Y in them, off the top of my head, although i'm sure they exist.

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Yoplait. A startling lack of creativity, tsk. ;)

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the question is- is that a REAL word?

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S'French for Yoghurt. You're not for a second suggesting that they would LIE to us on the telly-vision, are you?

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well if it IS french for yoghurt, then they lied, for the adds said it's french for 'mmmm'

on the subject of yoghurt, though, you produce another word (which is in the english side of my dictionary but not the french), yaourt.

so, words begining with y:

y
yaourt
and possibly yoplait.

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my dictionary turns up exactly ONE word begining with Y- y, as in 'il y a'.

my mind has since presented me with various verbs with -y- in the second syllable, and i am embarrassed for not thinking of them at first...

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les yeux? ;)

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indeed! why on earth is THAT on in my dictionary?

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What kind of dictionary is it? French-English-English-French?

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yep. not very big, but still, yeux and yaourt are important words... and i KNOW yeux is in the even smaller one i have lying around somewhere.

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Hmmm. Maybe it's time to write a scathing letter to the producers of the dictionary. Although...if they have no yeux, then perhaps they won't be able to read it :S

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Is there any link between 'yaourt' and 'yurt' as words? Nomadic Mongolians living in huts of fermented milk by-product and acidophilus culture?

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i don't know, but it wouldn't surprise me.

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well, Britannica tells me that english yoghurt comes from the turkish word spelt in the same way... my guess is that the french couldn't get their tongues around 'oghurt' :P

whether the turkish comes from yurt i cannot tell you...

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Those tricksy French, with their slovenly tongues and lack of diction, slurring out a triple-whammy of vowels...

It's people like this that cause Eurovision.

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*giggles* a most dreadful sin indeed!

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and britannica tells me that english 'yurt' comes from the turkish variant of the term as well... from here you need to find a turkish linguist and etymologist.

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