"Stefek Zaba" wrote in message
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Mary Fisher wrote:

I'm interested in the origin - but not enough to press you if you don't
divulge such things :-)

Oh, it's come up here before now, I think. 'S Polish: Stefek is 'Steve'
(the formal one's 'Stefan' = Ste(ph|v)en); Zaba - we write it with a dot
over the Z in the Olde Countree, making it a harsh sound wot doesn't occur
in English but is least dissimilar to the 'dr' in 'children' - means Frog.
Never know when that mightn't come up in Trivial Pursuit, as I usually go
on to say...

How do *you* pronounce the Zaba?

Mary

Stefek