(Sh-ch-e-rrr-ba)
a last name of Polish origin which most people have an incredibly difficult time attempting to pronounce, which is often replaced with similar sounding or appearing names, or nicknames of facilitated use for the person attempting to pronounce it.
do you know that Szczerba kid?
yeah, Skerbah!
you mean Sker-Sker-ber?
Shh-Chewbaca?
Shish-kabob?
S-man?
Alphabet?
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)