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Kurk Gayle
Pronunciation Notes:
best to listen. If you read, then / kɜrk geɪəl / 1st syllable has the rare growling R-colored vowel of North American English, 2nd a complex dipthong-plus-schwa-coda L. The non-liquid velar-plosive consonants spelled K, G, respectively voiceless, voiced
Gender pronouns:
he, him, his, él, lo, le, su(s), anh, cậu, ông, chú

Origin of Name

see "Behind My Name" for who nicknamed me "Kurky boy." see "Meaning of Name" for how Lithuanians, Dutch, Scottish, Cumberland English, and Persians mean "Kurk."

Meaning of Name

Kurk! yra liepiamoji veiksmažodžio „kurti“ forma lietuvių kalboje. It's Lithuanian! . Kurk betekent kurk in het Nederlands. It's Dutch! . In Scotland and among Cumbrary peasants of northern England, "kurk" means what Americans call "church" and "la iglesia"; here's from a Robert Anderson poem in his Cumberland lect: . "Furst helter skelter frae the kurk." . Kurk is the fine wool shorn from the undercoat of Kirmani goats in Iran, considered among the finest materials in the world, akin to Kashmiri products. Clearly, کورک, or Kurk, is Persian.

Behind My Name

My own father nicknamed me "Kurky boy," his misspelling of how he heard his German mother saying, "Kirche." . "Gayle" is an Anglished version of the Hebrew girl's name, אֲבִיגַיִל, meaning, "My father is joy." . https://www.kurkgayle.com/




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