| T.R | Title | User | Personal
Name | Date | Lines |
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| 183.1 | WAG | FURILO::BLINN | Dr. Tom @MRO | Fri May 09 1986 20:09 | 5 |
| Probably Welsh. And it's probably pronounced a lot like the
sound you make when you clear your throat. I wonder, does
he have an account on one of the systems? Does he NOTE?
Tom
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| 183.2 | Slav | CHEV02::NESMITH | See Spot run. Run Spot, run. | Fri May 09 1986 22:19 | 4 |
| I'll bet it's Slavic and pronounced something close to "Ninick".
So who's gonna ask him?
Susan
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| 183.3 | | MARVIN::HARPER | | Sat May 10 1986 18:16 | 9 |
| It certainly isn't Welsh, or anything else Celtic (at least not
with any kind of conventional spelling). I suppose it could be
Slavic. Maybe it's a pre-Indo-European language... although I thought
the Romans and then the Vandals did for all of them.
I still haven't plucked up the courage.
John
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| 183.4 | I've sent mail off | FURILO::BLINN | Dr. Tom @MRO | Sun May 11 1986 17:01 | 7 |
| Hmmm.. he isn't listed in the U.S. phonebook, but ELF knows
about him, and says he's at LZO, which translates to Leeds,
England. I've sent him mail (on the assumption that DECmail
will figure out how to route it, but who can say?). We'll
see (a) whether it gets through and (b) whether I get a reply.
Tom
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| 183.5 | Curioser and curioser | FURILO::BLINN | Dr. Tom @MRO | Mon May 12 1986 18:55 | 43 |
| Now, this is fascinating! MTS delivered it to LZO, where Mark
is reported by ELF to work, but he apparently doesn't have
an electronic mail account (or, at least, the router doesn't
know about it). We'll see if anything more comes of it.
Tom
From: RUGGED::MRGATE!POSTMASTER_AT_NORA_AT_RDGMTS_at_FLOTSM 12-MAY-1986 14:06
To: FURILO::BLINN
Subj: Curiosity
The attached message could not be delivered to the
recipient because the name was misspelled. However,
the message was delivered to the GENERAL DELIVERY
printer @LZO from where it will be delivered by
hand - the misspelled name(s) follow(s):
Failed to deliver to: MARK KNYHYNYCKYJ - No such name
The original message follows:
===================================================
Message-id: 19860511200344/187551@RUGGED
Posted-date: 11-May-1986 @ 20:03:44
To: MARK KNYHYNYCKYJ
From: BLINN@FURILO@MRGATE AT RUGGED AT FLOTSM at RDGMTS
Subject: Curiosity
Mark,
I happened to stumble across your last name, and am very curious both as
to how you pronounce it, and what nationality it comes from. Naturally,
you have no obligation whatever to answer this question, but I'd love
to know!
Regards,
Tom
Curious in the U.S.A.
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| 183.6 | My guess | VOGON::GOODENOUGH | Jeff Goodenough, IPG Reading-UK | Tue May 13 1986 09:04 | 8 |
| My guess is Nihinski, and probably Yugoslav or Polish - definitely
Slav, anyway.
Most Welsh names look pretty much like English, in fact most Welsh
names are Jones :-). I'm pretty sure the real Celtic names are
first names only, since patronymics were used.
Jeff.
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| 183.7 | Not a real word | KLOV04::WARNER | Slartibartfast | Thu May 15 1986 11:42 | 18 |
| < Note 183.6 by VOGON::GOODENOUGH "Jeff Goodenough, IPG Reading-UK" >
-< My guess >-
My guess is Nihinski, and probably Yugoslav or Polish - definitely
Slav, anyway.
Most Welsh names look pretty much like English, in fact most Welsh
names are Jones :-). I'm pretty sure the real Celtic names are
first names only, since patronymics were used.
Jeff.
It is not Celtic, the Irish alphabet does not contain the majority
of the letters in it. For my money its Hungarian and sounds like
yer man who leped about in yer ballet.
Seamus O'Guinless.
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| 183.8 | Do me a favour! | VOGON::GOODENOUGH | Jeff Goodenough, IPG Reading-UK | Fri May 16 1986 05:16 | 5 |
| Re: .7: I was not for one moment suggesting the name in question
was Welsh or any form of Celtic. That bit was in response to an
earlier response that suggested it might be.
Jeff.
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| 183.9 | | BISTRO::TIMMER | Rien Timmer, Valbonne. | Thu Jun 12 1986 15:59 | 8 |
| Still no reply from this mysterious person?
I have queried Finnish, Polish and Yugoslav people in my office
and all of them swear it cannot possibly be a name from their
language. So who's going to phone him? Jeff, you're closest...
Rien.
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| 183.10 | No I'm not | 4GL::GOODENOUGH | | Thu Jun 12 1986 17:42 | 1 |
| Re: .9 You're about 2,500 miles closer at the moment, Rien.
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| 183.11 | Oldies but goodies | WELSWS::MANNION | Bonnets so red | Mon Nov 16 1987 08:43 | 9 |
| SOME TIME LATER...
I am reliably informed by guys from the Leeds office that it's
pronounced "Nine-etsky", but they didn't know where it came from.
Attempts to send mail failed because he's a Field Service engineer,
apparently, and so not trusted with his own account. Something like
that anyway.
Phillip
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