The parade’s on the teevee. They had to get a Polish announcer because no one else knows how to say all the names!
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The parade’s on the teevee. They had to get a Polish announcer because no one else knows how to say all the names!
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Why? Pulaski Day is in March. Kids get the day off school statewide.
Heh. Try being a Mainland football broadcaster and doing U of Hawai’i games. Some try pretty hard, others don’t do their homework at all, but when faced with a roster of names like Ho`oikaika Cavaco-Amoy and Kaniela Tuipulotu, well, what can anyone do?
They probably hold the parade now because of the big St. Patty’s parade in March.
Hey, how about Andrzej Tadeusz Bonawentura Kościuszko, Anglicized as Thaddeus Kosciusko, or the full Andrew Thaddeus Bonaventure Kosciusko. New York’s Polish parade is in his honor for his service to the Continental Congress and Army during the Revolution.
Heh – I know what they’re going through. When I substitute taught, going to Milwaukee’s South Side was fraught with the certain knowledge I would mispronounce many students’ names.
Hilarity ensured.
It was a Polish neighborhood then, with other Eastern Europeans moving in. Now it’s mostly Latino.