Also, a lob is "un lob" and a slice is "un slice".

My name is boringly WASP ... and people still manage to misspell it. I work on the assumption you call people what they want to be called - within reason - and pronounce their names as much as possible as they want. And, yes, you spell it as they request (nods to ita).

ita, if you go to Dubai I want a full report. I have a weird fascination with Dubai.

::sticks tongue out at msbelle:: Getting all judgey on the furrin names.

ION - did I mention here that mac's bus company is claiming a check of mine bounced? I am arguing with them, even though my bank shows it cleared and I have my statement to show that not only did it not bounce, but I had a balance of almost ten times the check amount still in the bank. I have had to print out my bank statement, black out all account info on it, for the bank account as well as accounts of bills I pay. I also have a copy of the cancelled check showing two stamps on the back.

Something shady is going on and I am stuck because I have paid through the end of June with these people.

If I had a dollar for every time my last name has been mispronounced (It's "pete-," not "pet-"), I'd probably have a down payment for a decent Buffista Island.

IOON, have I mentioned here that if mac runs out of his afterschool classroom one more time this school-year they will not let him attend there anymore? My closest back-up is a program run by the people who run the bus company.

Other lazy-ass French tennis terms for ita:
le tennis
la raquette
la balle de tennis
le court
le serveur
le service

un juge de ligne
out
une faute
une double faute

un ace
un lob
la volée
avantage
la balle de break

When they make an effort:
le filet (net)
le coup droit (forehand)
le lift (topspin)
le revers (backhand)
égalité (deuce)

Smash!

Un smash

Le Hulk!