Wednesday, March 21, 2007

 

WPG=treacherous-name land

a short selection of last names from students I teach. It is a minefield.

Hnatiuk,
Koscielniak,
Dyrkacz,
Lwiwski,
Maksymchuk,
Mneina,
Narynskyyi,
Paetkau,
Peixoto,
Schimnowski,
Szilagyi,
Tkachuk, (no relation. I asked)
Yurkowski,
Zanzerl,

Comments:
they're going to love googling themselves only to find their teacher's blog!
 
semester's over. let 'em.
 
names that come to mind: Poland, Stanley Fish ("Is There a Text in This Class?")
 
How many of those can you correctly pronounce?
 
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