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Help[Opinions] Re: Picabo
in reply to a message by Sabrina Fair
If I didn't know about the skier, I'd say pih-KAH-boe (the end sounding like Cabo, as in Cabo San Lucas). It's the name of a place in Idaho, and perhaps some other places, so no telling what the 'real' pronunciation is.
Hold on...I looked up Picabo Street on Wikipedia, and apparently she's named after the town in Idaho, and it is pronounced like Peek-A-Boo. I could've sworn that I'd seen an interview with her years where she explained her name, and she said he parents couldn't come up with a name so they were going to let her pick her own. And they all, incl. her, thought Peek-A-Boo sounded so cute, but they wanted to spell it in such a way that it looked legit. The more I think about it, the more I think I probably dreamed or hallucinated that interview. :b
ETA: I was about 25% right. LOL. I found this--
http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1249678
'Little Girl' Street was born on April 3rd, 1971 in Triumph, Idaho. The sole girl-child of eight children born to hippies Dee and Stubby Street, they chose not to name their baby girl so that she could choose a name herself, and called her 'Little Girl' instead. When she was two, a trip to Mexico necessitated a passport, though passport authorities refused to process the document until she had a 'proper name'. Stubby and Dee chose Picabo, the name of a nearby town, Picabo, Idaho, which means 'shining waters'. They gave Picabo the choice when she was four to change her name, but she decided to stick with it.
Hold on...I looked up Picabo Street on Wikipedia, and apparently she's named after the town in Idaho, and it is pronounced like Peek-A-Boo. I could've sworn that I'd seen an interview with her years where she explained her name, and she said he parents couldn't come up with a name so they were going to let her pick her own. And they all, incl. her, thought Peek-A-Boo sounded so cute, but they wanted to spell it in such a way that it looked legit. The more I think about it, the more I think I probably dreamed or hallucinated that interview. :b
ETA: I was about 25% right. LOL. I found this--
http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1249678
'Little Girl' Street was born on April 3rd, 1971 in Triumph, Idaho. The sole girl-child of eight children born to hippies Dee and Stubby Street, they chose not to name their baby girl so that she could choose a name herself, and called her 'Little Girl' instead. When she was two, a trip to Mexico necessitated a passport, though passport authorities refused to process the document until she had a 'proper name'. Stubby and Dee chose Picabo, the name of a nearby town, Picabo, Idaho, which means 'shining waters'. They gave Picabo the choice when she was four to change her name, but she decided to stick with it.
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