Name pronunciations

[Paul Mackin]

Swing Hammerswing wrote:

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>
> and St. Paul, the Patron Saint of Malta

And if I'm not mistaken St. Paul's was designed by V's ancestor
Christopher Wren so what better place than Malta to mount a search.

>
>
> Now, some list members have been to Malta
> and if I'm not mistaken, it is pronounced Paula.
>
> and there is that strange thing Stencil says about
> Benny and Paola that connects St. Frances, Benny
> talking to the aligators and St Frances the Patron
> Saint of the Sea, the Navy, Navigators...
>
> and of course Hod, that's her married name,
>
> and Hod, connects her to Hood, as in Robin, Mara of course
> and GR, where Hod shows up telling jokes and P
> plays and puns on Hod's multiple religious meanings.

While we're at it,  hod is a tray for carrying bricks and stuff to
masons working up on scaffolds  and carrying the hod was what Finnegan
was doing when he had his famous fall. Did Benny by any chance fall for
Paola while lugging a drunken Pappy back to the ship from liberty?  It
could happen.

                        P.



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