English is Weird

I was channel-hopping last night when I noticed the name of an actress as "Moon Bloodgood". This sounded weird to me, and while I thought I'd shrug it off, I kept wondering about why the name sounded so strange.

A short foray into the wonderful world of internet searches and I skimmed all the basic details of this young woman's life -- danced as a Laker girl at 17, can sing, various tv bit parts, part of a new series on NBC... and finally I got to the information I wanted. Her mixed ancestry led to a "Moon" as a Korean first name and "Bloodgood" as a Dutch surname. So much for my exotic ideas about Druidic ancestry or Wiccan parentage.

But this still wasn't satisfactory -- I now knew why she had that name, but it still seemed strange to me. Until I wrote it down again and realized what had been bothering me. This name has three 'double o's in it, and not one of them sounds the same as the other. Moon. Blood. Good.

English is weird.