Quote Originally Posted by Andrew Breecher
That reminds me of an old children's book - which would never pass by today's PC standards - about a boy named Riki Tiki Tambo No So Rambo Chari Bariuchi Pit Beri Pambo.
Actually, it's Tikki tikki tembo-no sa rembo-chari bari ruchi-pip peri pembo. HIs brother's name was Chang. (Riki Tiki was a mongoose in another story) And it still sells well. Especially, in this day and age, of hyphenated names and extended middle names. (BillyJoe BobbieAnn Carlson-Wangballer, for example.)

"Five Chinese Brothers," another book from about the same time, has drawn fire for depicting the five brothers as all looking exactly alike, instead of in the original Chinese folktale, where they were all very different. I'm sure I don't have to draw a picture as to why people would find that offensive. I think you might be mixing them up.

In PA, we have quite a few Delaware and Dutch words as place names, it's not so much that they're long, just weird if you're not used to it. I remember driving around Germany, looking for signs for Rotenburg, Oberommergau*, and other brain-twisting names, and joking, "Why can't they have nice normal names! Like Susquehanna, Paoli, Neshaminy, Bryn Athen, or Puxatawney?"

*My German spelling sucks, sorry.