E.U., now pronounced “ewwww”
This is unwise, of course. Europeans are so consumed with wanting to be seen as friendly that they are ready to waste it upon persons upon whom it is known to be wasted.
As a wascally Evangelical, I could still imagine one way to retard the jihadist hordes. Have gospel messages in Arabic and in native languages playing loudly over speakers at the border. That would be greeted about as enthusiastically by jihadists as dogs and pigs would be.
Eeyore, the donkey’s name is an onomatopoeic representation of the braying sound made by a normal donkey, usually represented as “hee haw” in American English: the spelling with an “r” is explained by the fact that Milne and most of his intended audience spoke a non-rhotic variety of English in which the “r” in “Eeyore” is not pronounced as /r/.[1][2]