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Originally Posted by Tom Punks
It would sound strange even if the title was "my name's WOMAN." That phrase is just incredibly unnatural sounding to a native ear, whether plural or singular. Whether or not it sounds OK or makes sense to a non-native speaker is honestly, and I mean no offense by this, irrelevant. I guess it's possible to pull some meaning out of it, but you have to actually look at the words and analyze them lol.
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This! It doesn't really matter whether or not something is fully grammatically correct or not. It can still sound unnatural regardless. There's a semi-famous example - a paragraph talking about a president's inauguration that a trainer, professor, etc will often show to students studying translation when hammering this point into us. The paragraph is grammatically correct but because of the set-up, it -sounds- wrong anyway. What sounds natural is important. Anyway, uhm...
Though I actually like how the title sounds, I remember it struck me as a little odd at first.
Also, I assumed kiss o' kill was "of" due to other common words like jack-o'-lantern and will o' the wisp being "of." Thanks, jonboy, for that title info. ^^