As this is my first post for my new blog, I thought I'd begin on a happy note - I'm happy to report that I'm now an uncle for the third time, which is going to make Christmas that much more expensive.
After some complications, my sister had her tiny 5lbs 2oz sprog and decided to call her Zofia, which is the Polish spelling of Sophia because her fella's family have Polish origins and, for whatever reason, they thought this would be a nice thing to do.
With our Scottish lineage, we were gunning for McSophia, but just missed out. My Jewish grandad was hoping for Sophia Steinberg. The local Imam wanted Sofomohammed and my Russian neighbour went for Olga.
Apparently to speak Polish, all you have to do is exchange the 's' for a 'z' and a 'ph' for an 'f' - phones becomes 'fonez', sphere becomes 'zfere' and sphincter becomes 'zfincter'... zimplez!
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