--- Howard Brazee <howard at brazee.net> wrote: > Jerry Friedman wrote: > > > I like it, but I don't believe it. Google has no relevant hits for > > "Pablo Saves", "Roberto Saves", "Pancho Saves", or "Paco Saves". > > (There are too many false positives to check "Juan Saves" [an > > incident from Byron] or "Pedro Saves" [Christmas].) So I doubt very > > much that "Saves" is a Spanish surname. > > I remember an advertisement for The Bill Dana Show where he complained > that > a Fire Hose was a sign telling them to fire Jose Jimenez. I didn't > think > the joke worked back then. > > It's funny when an American says "His name isn't Jesus, it's Hey-Suz. > Except Mexicans pronounce Jesus Christ the same way. It's odd that > Anglos > don't use the name Jesus. "Hey-sus"! There's no [z] sound in most dialects of Spanish except before a voiced consonant (as in "machismo", at least in American Spanish). I think the given "Jesus" is rare or nonexistent in most languages other than Spanish. Unless you count "Joshua" as an equivalent. Jerry Friedman __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Get it on your mobile phone. http://mobile.yahoo.com/maildemo