... Illinois & names

[Jennifer Piersol]

Trina mouthed off:

> Trina, bleeding Orange and Blue and very proud of the Fightin' 
> Illini right now!

Oh yeah?  Well MY school (Arizona) is going to show you!  Nyah nyah 
nyah. :P

Hehehe... just kidding (well, okay... *half* kidding... March Madness 
brings out the best in the teams, worst in the fans, doesn't it?)

To get this back on "off-topic", I spent a summer at Harvard while I 
was in High School, and there was an organized outing to Faneuil Hall 
in the middle of my stay.  I was SO excited... I'd read such great 
things about it... and I was pronouncing just like you would in 
French... (unfortunately, I can't think of a way to write it 
"phonetically"... "fahn - oeil" is the closest I can get to, and 
that's using another French word!)  Imagine my disappointment when I 
learned that everyone else in Boston calls it "Faniel" like Daniel.

Ugh.

Jen (a resident of the san wahkeen valley... oh, and I LOLed when I 
read about the "taMALES" (two syllables).  Are there any taFemales?)

:)