Septic takes another pole!

Oh sure, and how you want your name pronounced is up to you, I guess.
But, before *reading* about Ben, I'd never heard Spies as a surname
before. I just don't think it exists in the UK. And, of course,
reading it I expected it to be pronounced 'Spys', so was surprised to
hear 'Spees'.

 

Oh, sure. With 20/20 hindsight we can see all kinds of reasons for
what happened to Lorenzo last year. But that wasn't the point. If
you had just finished watching the third race, not knowing what was to
come, you might be thinking to yourself "When's the last time we had a
Lorenzo Event?" Even Rossi didn't show that well. Tom wanted a
concrete example, there it is.

 

Yeah, I was tempted to change my name to "Ried" when I lived in
(German) Switzerland so that they'd pronounce it right -- it was always
"Herr Ryde". The Germans and the English just pronounce 'ie' and 'ei'
differently.

...and then there were the (at least) six ways they spelt my
first name: Ivan, Iwan, Jvan, Jwan, Yvan, and Ywan.

Champ, you in Bedford Saturday night? I've still got the GWS card
that was returned to me after you checked out of hospital quicker than
expected.

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