[poll] Names!

[pne]

To clarify slightly (hopefully): the "more than two middle names" was meant to read "more than two given names (i.e., more than one middle name)". And the "human" option is for those who would prefer to answer neither "male" nor "female"; I take it for granted that most people who chose "male" or "female" also consider themselves "human".

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I do know some say Bat and some say Bas, and I'm not really clear on why.

I think this has to do with Jews in different parts of the world having evolved different pronunciations, sort of like British and American pronunciations (some say "cot" and "caught" the same, some distinguish between them, sort of thing). IIRC there're two main groups of pronunciation: Ashkenazic (originally from north-eastern Europe?) and Sephardic (originally from Spain?).

One of the differences was pronouncing the last letter of the alphabet as 's' or 't', hence 'shabbat' vs 'shabbos'; other differences concerned vowel sounds, for example.

I believe that for some reason, most people in Israel use one pronunciation and most Jews in America the other, hence two pronunciations for many things.