re: #143 Anymouse 🌹

My mother tells a story about when she was stationed at NAS Norfolk, and several people in her division in a row alphabetically had Polish names. When roll was called, it would be “ski” “ski” “ski” &c. They learned which “ski” they were to answer to muster.

Way I’d do it would be the first letter of the surname. So say the person’s name was Kowalski, I’d call them K-ski. My grandmother’s maiden name ends in cik but it’s pronounced chik in the old country and by our New York/New Jersey cousins as it does in our ancestral language.