My sister is expecting another child! Woo! Congrats Sis!
In light of the thoughts of another tiny person in our extended family, Jen and I were playing a name game on a recent long car drive connecting names with parts of speech.
It started simply enough: go back and forth naming different names that were nouns or homophones for nouns: Rose, Sander, Ray, Grace, Skye, Mason, Penny
Then? Verbs or homophones for verbs:
Chase, Peter, Bill, Mark, Josh, Chuck
BUT! The real excitement came when we started looking for names that are also ADVERBS or homophones for verbs.
Reminder: an adverb describes a verb, like the words quickly or sneakily.
After two hours or so I came up with one such name. Can you think of it (or others?)
Some more verbs:
RobBobRalphPat
The woman who runs/owns Tech Cleaners in Worcester is named Soon. Totally an adverb.
Nice!! Also, you’ve nailed one of the few adverbs that doesn’t end in LY.
Your submission is not the adverb I was thinking of. I would suggest that mine is slightly more common in the United States. I can think of at least one other (like Soon) that is rare but accurate: Early. I’ve heard of people named Early.
Also not the one I had in mind. We’re up to three.
Hint: The one I came up with is a homophone.
I volunteer with a woman named Daly, pronounced Daily. Is that it?
Another decent one!
The two that we came up with were:
Riley – Wryly (this one was mine)
Shirley – Surely (this one was Sander’s)
Second (vague-ish) hint – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRva7z8pvwc