What do you guys think of the name Lewis?

[Midlodemocrat]

Should it be spelled Louis?

Thoughts?

Is the spelling Lewis preferable for a surname, or a first name?

[jpgray]

1. I just realized I think the diminutive "Lew" is cooler than "Lou"

:crazy:

Maybe now I understand the great (:P) "Katherine" "Kathryn" "Catherine" debate.

[Midlodemocrat]

2. So you think it is preferable as a first name?

To Louis?

[Hosnon]

3. Isn't "Louis" pronounced like "Stewie"?

Or no?

[JackBeck]

4. Be careful...

Don't want to give out too much personal information about yourself. It may lead some to come to the wrong conclusion.

;-)

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

5. It's a fine surname for someone in the health care industry.

I know a guy who's first name is Lewis. He's a douchebag.

[Midlodemocrat]

7. Really, healthcare? I hadn't thought of that.

You mean like Frist's hospital consortium?

[JackBeck]

8. Congratulations on the new job!

You're such a sellout!

[Midlodemocrat]

10. JackBeck, you know I have to earn the big bucks to

pay for the kids in the basement. Gawd.

[JackBeck]

12. I know the stress that can cause.

Which is why I don't hold it against you.

Heck, maybe I'll buy some shares so I can have a say at the shareholders meeting.

[auntAgonist]

14. as I understand it you fee the whole of HUNGARY

in your basement!

Her basement dwelling kids are hungary

:rofl:

aA
:hi:

[Midlodemocrat]

15. Damn I'm generous.

for a sell out.


:rofl:

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

16. You don't want your kids to go hungary.

You've provided them with a fine life, even though you had them when you were in grade school.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

13. Exactly like Frist's hospital consortium.

[pitohui]

6. spell it any way you like

i would think the spelling depends on who you wish to honor, if it's a first name but you are honoring that lewis and clark guy, spell it "lewis," it's a good enough first name for lewis's woodpecker, isn't it?

there is a perfectly solid tradition of supposed last names being given as first names to honor someone, i don't see the issue either way

plus wasn't joe louis spelled "louis" and that's a last name just as much

names are fluid, do what works for you and yours

[auntAgonist]

9. Just as long as your real name isn't

LIBBY!!

go scooter :) :rofl:

I need a Dr.

:)

aA
kesha

[graywarrior]

11. One of my best friends, mountain rescue guy, is named Lewis.

I love that spelling and I love him.

[Midlodemocrat]

17. See you guys later, I have to go deny someone healthcare coverage.

Bye!

:rofl:

[JackBeck]

18. DUmmy.

[ScreamingMeemie]

30. I thought you were going out to lunch with the Frists...

assuming they haven't gotten a phone call by now. :hi: Looser

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

19. I wonder if both names have the same root ...

tracing back to the tribe of Levi.

You could use it for both surname and first name, like the classic song, "Louie Louie"
:rofl:

[swimboy]

20. don't forget ludwig

and lodovico

[bigwillq]

21. I like it spelled Luis

the best...but then again that's usually because when it's spelled like that, the person is usually a hot latino! :evilgrin:

Ok, sorry, I am sterotyping..


Of Lewis or Louis...I like Louis better.

Lewis could be both first or last.

[edbermac]

22. I'd pronounce Lewis as LOO-IS, Louis as LOO-EE

:shrug:

[Redstone]

23. My best friend when I was growing up in Vermont was Tom Lewis. So I like

Lewis just fine. I still get together with him once a year and sit in with his band.

Redstone

[Redstone]

24. Oh, Midlo, fuck those pissants Over There. Why should you care what THEY think?

You know they're not worth worrying about, pack of losers that they are.

Just stop, OK? After all, would you care what the rats in your town's sewers thought of you?

Redstone

[Midlodemocrat]

26. Redstone. I LOVE you.

I was just messing. :hug:

[Redstone]

27. Always fun to got the jerkoffs worked up, isn't it? They'll seize on ANYTHING, and make ALL kinds

of threats about how they're going to "punish" individual DUers, but in the end, it all works out to be "much sound and fury, signifying nothing." Emphasis on the nothing.

Have you ever seen a more jealous group of people in your life? I'll bet you haven't.

Redstone

[Midlodemocrat]

28. The best part is when they

wrote about how none of us have jobs, but apparently "I" do because I'm a big wig at a hospital consortium.

I'm SO glad someone PM'd me that stuff this morning. I NEVER go there. What a friggin' cesspool of moranness.

[Redstone]

29. I've been describing it as a cesspool for a long time. As someone who grew up in

a little country town where people actually HAD cesspools (as we did), I know exactly what the word means.

Funny how the jealousy about the "six figures" dominates their discussion...wotta buncha losers, right there.

Redstone

[Crabby Appleton]

25. My grandfather was Luc - pronounced lew-is - soft "c"

[bertha katzenengel]

31. There's a "Lou" and a "Lewis" in my life.

The "Lou" is my boss (Louis) and the "Lewis" is Lewis Black. Okay, he's not in my life but he sure enriches it.

Anyway, I like "Lewis" better. And "Lew." AND, "Lew" rhymes with and looks similar to "askew" and the way he says "askew" in one of his jokes just cracks Mrs. V. up like crazy.