One more delightful letter? In my column, I have something on restaurant names that are hard to pronounce, or impossible to pronounce. What good could that possibly do the restaurant? Reader writes,

As a sales rep several years ago, I called on a restaurant that was just getting ready to open. They didn’t have signs outside yet, so I asked the owner what he planned to name it. He showed me his card, which had the word “Seny” on it. I said, “What does Sen-ee mean?” He told me that it was Catalan and actually pronounced “Sen,” but he didn’t expect anybody in Cincinnati to be able to pronounce it correctly. I couldn’t help remarking, “You named your restaurant something you know nobody will be able to pronounce?”
Best yet, “seny” means “common sense.”
The restaurant closed within a year of opening, and to the day they closed they never stopped arrogantly correcting the simpletons of Cincinnati on how to pronounce the name.

Yeah. Just think if Thomas Paine had titled his pamphlet Seny.