Re: British given names

the Omrud wrote:
rat@xxxxxxxxxxxx had it ...


Phone book. "Otto, Matt"


Here we have the doubly non-travelling pun. Firstly, the UK pronunciations are so different that I suspect my compatriots will not guess what word it's supposed to be, at least without considerable thought. And secondly, the concept is unknown. Horn and Hardart never made it across the Pond.


The concept may be unknown in England, but I remember the Automaat on Rotterdam Centraal railway station.

Fran
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