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Re:The Trader Who Donates Half His Pay by bshimmin on Monday April 06, 2015 @11:54AM (#9328728)
"Mr. Wage" is a lovely example of an aptronym: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aptronym
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Re:The Trader Who Donates Half His Pay by rry on Monday April 06, 2015 @12:57PM (#9329136)
Not to be a downer, but it's pronounced "wah-GEE", with a hard G.

source: used to work a few desks down from Matt.

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Re:The Trader Who Donates Half His Pay by nocman on Monday April 06, 2015 @01:28PM (#9329370)
Wow, now there's a guy guaranteed to have his name mispronounced 99% of the time (well, at least by people who have never heard it spoken). [ edited for typo ]
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Re:The Trader Who Donates Half His Pay by willmacaskill on Monday April 06, 2015 @03:39PM (#9330239)
I know; his brother actually just gave up and started introducing himself as "Wage" (pronounced as you'd think) rather than "WAG-ee"
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