Katie’s Beer

4 Responses to “110692881575964003”

1. ghp // Jan 30, 2005 at 7:44 pm

   It’s nifty, neato, peachy keen!

   ;-)

   -ghp

2. TKls2myhrt // Jan 30, 2005 at 8:24 pm

   For anyone who is interested:

   keen = kiihn

   That is probably not apparent in written form.

3. ghp // Jan 31, 2005 at 4:04 pm

   That makes a certain amount of visual-phonetic sense, if I think about it hard enough…

   Is it of Finnish extraction? If I’m remembering correctly, then I think that they tend to use ‘ii’ & pronounce it ‘ee’.

   I must confess that I was pronouncing it (in my head) as the short ‘i’ sound (like the 80’s pop-rocker Greg Kihn). My bad — I’ll adjust my brain appropriately.

   -ghp

4. TKls2myhrt // Jan 31, 2005 at 4:28 pm

   I remember the Greg Kihn band!!! When we lived in the Cloquet/Duluth area, with its large Finnish population, everyone asked if we were Finnish. The phonebook was full of names with “ii” , but at the end of the names and not in the middle. Kiihn is an adulterated version, thanks to Ellis Island, of the good German name Kuhn (the u with the umlaut). Rob is 3/4 German, three generations removed. The German last name Kuhn, with its many American variations, is quite a common name: Kuehn, Kuhn and very few Kiihn’s.