What's in a name? No really?

They Call him WOT?

Sometime during the US v. Canada hockey game
during a period in which the US was sucking
(which frankly, was all but a total of 10 seconds anyway)


B: Oh look! Taves!
Me: Who?
B: Taves!
Me: Huh?
B: There's a Canadian player named Taves!
Me: Taves?
B: His last name is Taves.
Me: Oh?
B: My godmother's last name is Taves.
Me: Where?
B: There!
Me: Er?
B: He moved away.
Me: Okay.
B: THERE!
Me: ...
B: See?
Back of player's uniform: T-O-E-W-S
Me: Uh, no?
B: TAVES!
Announcer: And TAVES blah-blah-such-and-so...
Me: ?!?!?!??!?!?
B: Right there.
Me: How the (bleep) do you get TAVES outta that?
B: Well, how do you get 'ch' out of 'cz' in Polish names?
Me: But they're Polish names! You kind of expect that.
B: No you don't.
Me: Well I do. I went to school with a kid named Szewczyk.
B: Okay, maybe you do.
Me: ...
B: ...
Me: But seriously, HOW do you get that? Let's not even talk about the vowels.
B: *shrug* Iono. I've just always seen it as Taves.
Me: Is half of the 'w' silent, which magically turns it into a 'v?' And then...oh God, just make me stop talking. My HEAD'S about to explode.
B: *chalks it up to another magical moment with me*