{"id":4454,"date":"2011-01-18T20:28:48","date_gmt":"2011-01-19T03:28:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/?p=4454"},"modified":"2012-03-12T08:55:38","modified_gmt":"2012-03-12T13:55:38","slug":"clearing-away-some-crap-about-my-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/clearing-away-some-crap-about-my-name\/","title":{"rendered":"Clearing away some “crap” about my name."},"content":{"rendered":"

OKAY! I’m going to try to point everyone in the right direction…which incidentally is something a certain forefather of mine did NOT do.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Click to read more about my great (x20+) grandpa, Chris.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n


\nSo, I’m reading my blog analytics, and I’m confronted with an old foe…of sorts.<\/strong> It seemed a google search for some gastric-related product sent someone to my blog. Welcome to my whole life. My maiden name (and pen name) Col\u00f3n is pronounced (basically) like this: CO – lone. (The other joke was, “What’s that smell? Is it Lisa Col\u00f3n? Like eau de cologne<\/strong><\/em>…SO ingenious, right?)<\/p>\n

Surprisingly…ahem…the word colon<\/em> is well, confusing for a lot of people, and search engines, too.
\nLet’s be clear, the name Col\u00f3n is not<\/strong> the same as the word used for a punctuation mark, or a semi-punctuation mark, or a main part of the large intestine. Oh, but WHAT a funny joke…especially at the doctor’s office. HA. HA. HA. Yeh, whatever. Nurses think they are endlessly funny, believe me.<\/em><\/p>\n

You may have never heard of the Col\u00f3n surname, at all, unless<\/strong> you are familiar with a certain Right Tackle football player and once Pittsburgh Steeler: Willie Col\u00f3n (click for wiki).<\/a><\/p>\n

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We have an uncanny resemblance to each other, I KNOW.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Or you are particularly into Salsa music, and know Willie Col\u00f3n<\/a>, the Puerto Rican salsa music icon; a Nuyorican<\/a> salsa musician<\/a>, and\u00a0trombonist.<\/p>\n

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Salsa musician Willie Col\u00f3n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

If \u00a0you are not familiar with Spain, Spanish, Spanish countries, or Central and South American countries, you are in new territory for this nomenclature.<\/p>\n

Or!<\/strong><\/p>\n

You haven’t made the connection with all sorts of Columbian words (yes, the word Columbian relates to the “discoverer”..of a place where people already were…of the Americas….\u00a0Amerigo Vespucci<\/a>…er…wait… I mean… “Christopher Columbus”.)<\/p>\n

Those related words are\u00a0Colonize, Colony, Colonel, Colonial, et cetera. Yes. They all originate with Crist\u00f3bal Col\u00f3n, the Spanish name of Christopher Columbus.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Okay, <\/span><\/strong>now to clear it up, using the dictionary.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The word “colon” (pronounced COLE-on<\/span>) which is NOT my name is 1 of 2 things:<\/strong><\/p>\n

colon 1 <\/strong>|\u02c8k\u014dl\u0259n|
\nnoun
\na punctuation mark ( : ) indicating
\n\u2022 that a writer is introducing a quotation or a list of items.
\n\u2022 that a writer is separating two clauses of which the second expands or illustrates the first.
\n\u2022 a statement of proportion between two numbers : a ratio of 10:1.
\n\u2022 the separation of hours from minutes (and minutes from seconds) in a statement of time given in numbers : 4:30 p.m.
\n\u2022 the number of the chapter and verse respectively in biblical references : Exodus 3:2.
\nORIGIN mid 16th cent. (as a term in rhetoric denoting a section of a complex sentence, or a pause before it): via Latin from Greek k\u014dlon \u2018limb, clause.\u2019
\n colon 2<\/strong>
\nnoun Anatomy
\nthe main part of the large intestine, which passes from the cecum to the rectum and absorbs water and electrolytes from food that has remained undigested. Its parts are called the ascending, transverse, descending, and sigmoid colon.
\nORIGIN late Middle English : via Latin from Greek kolon.<\/p>\n

My name is Col\u00f3n, which is different.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Col\u00f3n<\/strong> |k\u0259\u02c8l\u014dn|
\nthe chief port of Panama, at the Caribbean Sea end of the Panama Canal; pop. 140,900.
\n col\u00f3n <\/strong>|k\u0259\u02c8l\u014dn|
\nnoun ( pl. -lones |-\u02c8l\u014d\u02ccn\u0101s|)
\nthe basic monetary unit of Costa Rica and El Salvador, equal to 100 centimos in Costa Rica and 100 centavos in El Salvador.<\/p>\n

ORIGIN from Crist\u00f3bal Col\u00f3n, the Spanish name of Christopher Columbus (see Columbus 2 ).<\/strong><\/p>\n

Why do I continue to use a name that is confusing? <\/strong>
\nPart of it is that I’m just silly. And, well, my married name is DeLay. It’s French, and poses its own set of problems. Delay. Yes, \u00a0perhaps I’m the repeated victim of circumstance. This is especially true if colon and delay are put together. Ya know?<\/p>\n

And fittingly, this post has constipation…
\nBut, it’s all so you can sit down, relax, and Wait…Wait…wait…<\/p>\n

It’s all coming out better now in the end.<\/p>\n

So, yeh, if you need a colon cleanser…as you can see, I’m here for you (in a sense).<\/p>\n

Incidentally…Thomas Crapper took out nine plumbing patents 1881-1896. Click here for the truth about Crapper<\/em><\/a> <\/strong>(With a name like that, Tom is my reason for some optimism and<\/span> not taking myself too seriously.)<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

What do you think…a rose by any other name…blah blah blah???
\nIf you have any “monicker stories”…share away!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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