[Princess Ivy]

Originally Posted by The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

Ford Prefect's original name is only pronouncable in an obscure betelgeusian dialect, now virtuallly extinct since the Great Collapsing Hrung Disaster of Gal./Sid/Year 03758 which wiped out all the old Praxibetel communities on Betelgeuse seven............
.....................Because Ford never learned to say his original name, his father eventually died of shame, which is still a terminal disease in some parts of the galaxy. The other kids at school nicknamed him Ix, which in the language of Betelgeuse Five translates as 'boy who is not able satisfactorily to explain what a Hrung is, nor why it should choose to collapse on Betelgeuse Seven'.

is that any help?