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I guess some parents out there just don’t realize how a name can be twisted into something worth picking on. I knew a guy in school whose name was Patrick Marcus Stansberry. Normal name… nothing funny about it. But his initials are PMS!!! Poor guy 😆
I have one coworker whose first name is “Phuc”, and its pronounced as “fook.”
But some people mistakenly pronounced it the other way upon meeting him for the first time… 😯
mimitrek wrote:I have one coworker whose first name is “Phuc”, and its pronounced as “fook.”
But some people mistakenly pronounced it the other way upon meeting him for the first time… 😯
well when I was in London they had an advertisement for
“Phat Phuc Noodle Bar”
and yeah it’s not pronounced that way really…
but in London everyone said it the way it looks… 😯
frozendragon wrote:mimitrek wrote:I have one coworker whose first name is “Phuc”, and its pronounced as “fook.”
But some people mistakenly pronounced it the other way upon meeting him for the first time… 😯
well when I was in London they had an advertisement for
“Phat Phuc Noodle Bar”
and yeah it’s not pronounced that way really…
but in London everyone said it the way it looks… 😯
Well since this thread has EVOLVED into ethnic place names…these are some Vietnamese places in the Houston area that comes to mind:
Pho Cowboy 69- noodle shop
Phuc Luc Tho- don’t know what this place is, I think it is a resturant
Long Theng(sp?)- resturant/supermarket
AND I kid you not Hung Dong Meat Market…I need to find this place again and send it to Leno… 😛you know what’s sad…is I’ve seen a long of places named Hung Dong….
maybe he/she is rich and has a franchise 😯
Down here, we had Dick’s (sporting goods), BJ’s (bulk food and stuff) and Seaman’s (furniture). They were all anchor stores for the plaza and were on the big sign out front…
Now Seaman’s is Levitz, so it’s not quite the same…
😆There is, or was, a huge children’s furniture and baby supply store here in the valley called “Sid’s”. (SIDS stands for “sudden infant death syndrome”.)
There was a Chinese restaurant near us that was called the Poo Ping palace.
There was also a reality business called “Konzem Real estate broker”. That couldn’t be accidental, could it?frozendragon wrote:you know what’s sad…is I’ve seen a long of places named Hung Dong….
maybe he/she is rich and has a franchise 😯
I wonder if there are any Vietnamese speaking forum members here that could translate…
My wife jokes that names like “Hung Dong” comes from smartass teenage kids having fun with the name of their family business, because the first wave of Vietnamese immigrants naturally aren’t versed in American slang. I doubt this very much though…it probably translate into something very beautiful…like “Lotus Blossom” or something…hehee 😀
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