Things you were shockingly old when you learned

Stop spoiling my nicknames.

Where are you getting that from, anyway? All the things I can immediately find on the internet say that with him it was Eve-Lin not Ever-Lin.

(not very authoritative sources, I admit)

these folks seem to agree it's EVE-lin

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p061qw73

Evil Genius with Russell Kane
Writing Brideshead Revisited? Genius. Naming his son Auberon? Evil. And it gets worse... Russell weighs it all up with Jolyon Rubinstein, Ellie White and Sadie Harrison.

Ihave always pronounced it Ehvuhlin in my mind but now I'm wondering if I've ever heard that name spoken aloud. Wouldn't have guessed at the evil or ever pronunciations. I still think that Alba's joke would work though.

Is ever not pronounced Ehvuh, then?

I think I've vacillated between Eve-lin and Eever-lin. Never done Ever or Ehvuh (are these two meant to be different? I guess Eh can be pronounced like the letter A)

Eve-lin is what I've heard most. Ehvuh-lin I end up clipping down in classic British style to Evlin, which could give rise to 'Vluh' as an imo excellent short name. VLUH

... like his son, Ron Waugh, little Ronnie Waugh. Always pronounced it as Eve-lin, fwiw.

ever-lyn = the femme fatale with the deadtooth from twin peaks

I always assumed it was Ever-Lin as that's how Bill Deedes pronounced it, and I guess he should know of anyone.

Shevverlin is still great tho

The old duffers here pronounce it eeeev-lin though, so let's just assume waugh deliberately pronounced it both ways to screw with people, which sounds plausible

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgUahGZzaNU

woff

I often look back on my callow youth, and when I do a smile flits across my now mature but pitted face. I hardly recognize the naïve boy I once was. To think that I once believed that Evelyn Waugh was a woman! Of course now, with a couple of ‘O’ levels under my belt, I am far more sophisticated and I know that Evelyn Waugh, should he be alive today, would be very, indeed, dead proud of his daughter, Auberon; because of course Evelyn is the father of Auberon and not, as I once thought, the mother.

https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/hostedimages/1443448085i/16361932.png

Where's sic when you really need a factcheck

I briefly considered Auberon/ Oberon for my son's name! I had to ditch it bc I kept thinking of that Oberyn Martell scene on GoT.

actually I also had Evelyn as a potential girls' name... huh

Joan Bakewell says it Eve-lin and that's good enough for me:

https://youtu.be/UvtjUt0GzKg

omg @ how she says "waugh" - it is a monument to an entire way of being

laughter
slaughter
Waugh-ter

guys guys I'm pretty sure it's pronounced evil-lyn
thats my he-man joke I'm here all week you're welcome

as I've gotten older, I have learned that being young sucks, nobody lets you do anything and your brain doesn't work good

I didn't start getting my shit together til age 28

There is no scientific or medical word for boogers.

No fuckin way

xpost My grandmother's name was Evelyn. We pronounced it with second syllable short i. The british way sounds nicer.

That Mark Knopfler played guitar on Rod Stewart's "Young Turks." I just learned that yesterday.

i realized that wolfgang voigt aka gas was mike ink in burger/ink ...... last week.

Huh, I had no idea!

I for one am shocked that you guys didn't learn that in elementary school.

Fine. How about my "booger" nugget?

I only learned that when I read your post tbh.

Previous internet discussions of that seem to do a lot of hair-splitting between mucus and boogers.

To not trust anyone (for the most part)

booger nugget

i've never seen a single picture of any member of the band slade until about 5 minutes ago when i did a youtube search for them. interesting

I had to search, and huh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rftnB33goIg

I only knew their looks from that Runaway video.

Haha, yeah, I watched a bunch of Slade and other glam videos a few months back when I was reading Reynolds' Shock and Awe. I had also only known them from the "Runaway" video, which was a good example of younger me being totally baffled as to why these oddball bands woukd have videos on MTV, not at all realizing that they had careers prior to the 80s.

Slade definitely had a style going on back in the day. Noddy Holder was quite the character. I like his shtick and sartorial panache.

Well I’ve just learned that there’s a band called Slade. What’s interesting about what they look like?

Hi

http://artist1.cdn107.com/b80/b807d2dc47c76ed1f73fe5ac6423875f_lg.jpg

Gosh!

i remember being out on the playground in 3rd or 4th grade and noticing it get light and dark and light again and thinking it was super weird. i don't think i made the connection that clouds would move and block the sun until i was maybe 7, lol. i know that's not SHOCKINGLY old but i remember being embarrassed that i didn't realize it earlier.

Silby, does that mean that you've only heard Quiet Riot's version of "Cum on Feel the Noize"?

Or "Mama Weer All Crazee Now" for that matter?

I’m not trying to be faux-naïf or smug here but I have never heard of any of those things.

I actually am a little shocked by that.

I’m, like, 12 or something.

I haven’t heard of most music, or even most things, I really shouldn’t bring it up. Glad I did though in this case because that’s a good picture of some fun looking fellows