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I keep hoping that if I poke it nastily, it'll mutate into a complete but understated brain.

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That could be an understatement :D so yodelling on to another dimension.

**By the way P'ter, 5 LW books are on their way to you :D Hope you'll enjoy them.

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Thank Goodness for that! So: which dimension do we go to next?

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Keep sending thoughts outward and maybe one or two will blossom!

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Perhaps we could go phor a swipht rephiphal of the phlogiston theory?

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Ouch! That needs some consideration before i can come up with a comment!

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That means that I've shut Sandi up? Wow! I'll retire to my little hut for a giggle.

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Takes two to tango if that's the case!

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Sooo, other opener over used already, I should say I got a hoot out of that one, P'ter, having spent my younger years with the last name, Phares (pronounced like the famous amusement park wheel ride).

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Oh golly your ranting teachers could have had such real rare fun. "Are you paying attention Pheres, or are you off with the pharies?" "You look as though you're in a bit of a spin, Pheres."

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Honestly, getting long expressive looks was the least of it. I remember at least one "adult" who looked me straight in the eye and informed me that is not the way to spell my own name! :faint:

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Sounds like the lawyer called Bury (Bew-ree). One of his cases was being tried before a judge who WOULD call him Berry (despite polite corrections from said lawyer). During the Judge's summing-up me spotted Mr Bury chuckling to himself.

"What's so funny about my summing-up Mr Berry?"

"Nothing really Your Honour; I just realised that those twelve good citizens THINK they're sitting on the Jury."

Sorry about that!

When you find that "Ghoti" can logically be pronounced "fish" anything goes; especially with names. My last name is spelled Vessey in my branch of the family but variations include Vesci, Vesey & Veasey. And my teachers had great fun finding ALL the words that rhyme with it.

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Unless it's serious, yes and official business, I soon learned to let people spell it any way they want.

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I should suppose some French phorbears phor you as "phare" in French signiphies a lighthouse.

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I did entertain early expectations since there was a French settlement near where my ancestors founded their farm, but evidence suggests they came from another US State years before the French contingent and a fractured and confusing line suggests the family originated in England.

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In that case I suspect that it derived from Ferres (meaning an ironworker) which was quite common across Europe. There are numerous variations; even Ferrari derives from this. There was a Thomas le Ferrur in Yorkshire in 1275, earliest known written incidence.

The swap to 'ph' may well be because somebody had social aspirations: like Smith getting changed to Smythe, or Finch becoming ffinch.

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I didn't suspect that link before. Very interesting theory. I know the "Ph" was used as early as the 1700's but I don't know a lot about them. It's also a name that appears in some translations of the Bible and I wondered if they attached it from that. It's a curiosity but I don't expect to ever know for sure.

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How about that then?

Splendipherous!

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You're either near solving my ancestral mystery or you're leading me farther and farther afield. Which is it? We wonders, yesss, we wonders!

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Easily resolved or really giving Sandi, food for thought ;) Did anyone find out for definite? By the way, I know one branch of my family produced a famous hotel chain, unfortunately it wasn't my branch of the family ...... at least my branch produced the mayor for one of the suburbs in Melbourne :D and that'll be my only claim to fame :lol: as the rest of us are all normal.

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You Darned Young Girl! What a selelction of letters to give me!

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Unlike dangling good little ewes and gees ?

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I got edge out all of that, Sandi as an anagram :D Cool bananas!

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P'ter, you're a knockout, dingding, round 1 goes to P'ter and ummm.....yep, can't think of anything more to say at the moment :lol:

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That's totally topnotch! :roll:

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So you're happy with your award?

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Oh yes everytime; with out doubt I eat such praise 'yet am strangely empty'

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Take the time to enjoy your accolades. You can eat when you turn off the compie!

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Eating those empty awards are not quite as fulfilling as being around good friends :D and enjoying a good meal of tatties and meat.

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Good eating yields happy faces.

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and a darn good stomach

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Do Nacho's help?

:joker:

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Only as a sop to my poor depraved digestion.

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If you pour red wine to go with them it might help. I've heard some of the Aussie wines are pretty good.

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There are some lovely understated wines from the Riverina region of NSW; which is where Dragongirl hangs out.

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Great. Let's all drink Aussie wines this Christmas.

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So, seriously folks, every party needs necessary liquidity to carry the entity logically to its finale: the barbecuing of the koupray.

(One Christmas I donated two bottles of Crozes Hermitage to the church for use at midnight communion. A number of the congregation thought that there'd been a miracle --- the wine tasted good! :D)

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Welcome to the You Yangs of yonder reproach. And Dragongirl's not the only one to hang out in the Aussie version of the French Riverina :lol: but I live on the Mexican side of the border ;)

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And (as far as I can tell) DG lives on the Canadian side of the border. :D

I was being YYYYYYs (for once), but under such riposts I'll surrender.