CHAT: Cowan again (was: jokes (was: Fdnyldjikyl Inglyx))

Steg Belsky wrote:

> Of course!  :-)
> Well, we actually wait until you've finished to tell the improved/other
> version....the interruption is just to tell you that it's coming. :-)
Hmm, no, I don't think so.  Perhaps it depends on how excitable you are.

> Btw, are you Jewish?
No: the Cowan half is Irish (Mac Eoghain, /mac OG@n/ more or less);
/kO:@n/ until my father's generation, /kAw,n/ since then.

> The only other Cowan i know is, and she's always
> correcting people that her name is /k&w@n/, not /kow@n/,
Me too, *sigh*.  Of course there are people who ignore the
corrections and go on calling me Cohen, and I even had one person
strongly imply that I must be a self-hating Jew who wanted
to conceal my Jewish name!

> even though she
> is 'up there in the caste system' as we call it. :-)
In other words, a Republican?  :-)

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