"The AARP Affair" by Rose Burkette for WRITER'S CHOICE!

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A 'senior' UNCLE story by the one and only Rose Burkette. (aka rosewit here on LJ) It's short, but sure to bring a chuckle.  The link takes to to the soon to go 'bye-bye' (sniffle) File 40

"The AARP Affair" Click on the image to take you to File 40.

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Gaelic is one of the languages that I've studied "professional student" here as well as Swedish, Japanese, a bit of Russian and a touch of other languages here and there. My online moniker is a "double translation" of my name the etymology of names is a hobby of mine as is studying languages.

The "double translation" has been helpful in several of my classes, including my Celtic studies ones when there are several students in the same class with your first name, one has to find a way to differentiate oneself from the others.

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Oh wow, that's fantastic. I've always been fascinated wit the origins of words....

I used to teach Irish at a local college, for over 27 years, but sadly due to an illness I had to stop teaching.

When running into duplicate names in classes I'd name a student in order of appearance.

So the first Moira, for example, would be Moira Óg- young Moire, followed by- Mean Moira- Middle Moira, then Sean Moire- Old Moira.

If we had more Marys than that, (and it happened a few times, along with the name James) then we'd go into hair color such as Moira Ban- while Moira.

It was a very effective system, especially if the person who ended up with 'sean' was an older person! If not, well they lived with it. The understood the context...lol!