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bshimmin
on April 6, 2015
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The Trader Who Donates Half His Pay
"Mr. Wage" is a lovely example of an aptronym:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aptronym
rry
on April 6, 2015
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Not to be a downer, but it's pronounced "wah-GEE", with a hard G.
source: used to work a few desks down from Matt.
nocman
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Wow, now
there's
a guy guaranteed to have his name mispronounced 99% of the time (well, at least by people who have never heard it spoken). [ edited for typo ]
willmacaskill
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I know; his brother actually just gave up and started introducing himself as "Wage" (pronounced as you'd think) rather than "WAG-ee"
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