Re: British given names

Frances Kemmish wrote:
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.

I don't see the difficulty: the word is self-explanatory in whatever
context, and Ggling UK sites gets 119,000 hits.

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