HW: Female Input / Questions

[Jon Browne]

In message <33333661.7F5E at hotmail.com>, Bryan Young
<blyoung at HOTMAIL.COM> writes
>STUPID QUESTIONS:  Okay, I had to do this, but it's going to hurt me
>a lot more than it will hurt you...
>    1)  How do you pronounce the name "Huw"?  I am from Canada and have
>never heard such a name spoken.  I assume it is alike to "Hugh".

It is. Welsh spelling, I believe.
>(And why is it Huw Lloyd on the first CD's notes?  If he were female I
>would assume he got married and hyphenated his name instead of changing
>it completely.)
Some men do it too. I know a guy who changed from Baker to Baker-Smith
when he got married.
>    2)  I know what it signifies, but what is the literal word-for-word
>phrasing associated with "ObCD"?

Ob-ligatory. You *gotta* hear this!

as in

ObCD - new Chemical Brothers single " Block Rockin Beats"- out today!
       mmm nice!

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Jon Browne