Dr. Seuss ver.2

I once read that Theodor Geisel (better known as "Dr. Seuss"), the beloved author of so many classic children's books, actually pronounced his chosen moniker as "Soyce."

This was a shocking revelation, which completely upended my whole perception of reality - sort of like when I learned that Canada was just an elaborate hoax hatched by a pair of bored mapmakers in 1873.

It seems that "Seuss" was a family name - and his own middle name, at that - so I guess he would have known how it was meant to be pronounced. I still get a little queasy when I think about it, though.

I wrote a poem about the whole painfully disconcerting situation. Here's how part of it went:

"If the good doctor Seuss is more properly Soyce,
Is my pineapple juice really Pineapple Joyce?"