Colleen27
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Mar 31, 2007
Ah, but the conventions that govern naming complicate things. There are only so many easily pronounceable (to English speakers, I guess) male names that start with I, several of them have already been retired (Ivan, Ike, Igor), and they cannot be repeated for 6 (or 8? I don't remember which) years.
I don't think ease really matters all that much when it comes to storm names anyway. Other than newscasters, who have to pronounce unusual and unfamiliar names in the course of the job fairly often, there's really not a ton of urgency for being able to refer to a storm by name (there usually isn't more than one that is relevant at any given time...) or to do so with unfailing accuracy (pretty sure if you said "Hurricane Isaias" but pronounced it like the plural of Isiah people would know what you meant).
Fish! Lol, that was the standard for our generation. Guess these kids needed their own.
Oh, and let's not forget the ultimate long word, supercalifragilisticexpialidocious! And its counterpart pun: Mahatma Gandhi was a peculiar person. He walked barefoot everywhere, to the point that his feet became quite thick and hard. He often went on hunger strikes, and even when he wasn't on a hunger strike, he did not eat much and became quite thin and frail. He also was a very spiritual person. Finally, because he didn't eat much and when he did his diet was peculiar, he developed very bad breath. He became known as a super-calloused fragile mystic hexed by halitosis.
