Message: "I think so." - Behind the Name

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I think so.

by Solveig (cynthiajames)

3/11/2018, 10:42 AM

I keep hearing Sal in my head and thinking Jewish.

I wonder if I came across it as a nickname when I was reading PG Wodehouse. I might also have been reading Evelyn Waugh, not sure. I know it was in the similar time period, and I know the character was Jewish.

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- basilisk (blaaarg) +1

3/11/2018, 11:29 AM

I think Sylvester is commonly used for Sal.

- Jagoda (-doe)

3/11/2018, 2:29 PM

I can’t decide how I feel about Sylvester. I’ll mull it over.

- Jagoda (-doe) +2

3/11/2018, 10:49 AM

I think one of the first times I really paid attention to Sal, it was on one of those guys who do that prank show... Impractical Jokers? And for some reason I assumed it was a Jewish name until I checked online. I've read some Wodehouse and Waugh too so I wonder if we both picked it up from the same place?

- solveig (guest) +1

3/11/2018, 11:21 AM

Perhaps.

There is another book that I'm thinking of, it was a popular historical novel from the 1980s. (I took a class in the early 2000s and a woman was cleaning out her house. She passed on a lot of her books to me, they were all from the 1980s and 1980s. Susan Isaacs & Judith Krantz) and I'm fairly sure there is a character in it named Sal.

I need to remember more details to get the name of the book.

I really need to remember to use my GoodReads account!

- Jagoda (-doe)

3/11/2018, 11:35 AM

Oh that’s definitely not a book I’ll know!

If you do start using your goodreads again, feel free to DM me and we can be friends on there!

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