In Reply to: I've Never Liked Harry Kane posted by UCLA78 on July 11, 2026 at 19:17:23
And never Kane, while almost everyone else is regularly mentioned with their last name alone. Is it an English speaker's bias against not using last names alone if they're a single syllable? Which is something I believe I would've noticed before... I mean, was it always Donovan Dent and never just Dent? Always Skyy Clark (or Catlyn Clark) and never Clark? Always Declan Rice and never just Rice? If so how did I miss that until now? (Asking as a non-native speaker -- you can't take the linguist out of the boy, after all)
Is it an English vs American thing? Or is it part of being a member or the harrykane cult that you shall always refer to him as harrykane?
Somehow I keep hearing harrykane all the time and it's like fingernails on chalkboard after a while.