“THE-EVIL-FORCE-WHOSE-NAM-C’NOT-BE-SPOKE”
When Howie arrived at Dogwiz, everyone stared at him and muttered, “That’s Howie Monroe, that’s Howie Monroe.” Howie thought this was strange at first, but then decided it was very nice. Everyone must have read his first two books (It Came from Beneath the Bed! by Howie Monroe and Invasion of the Mind Swappers from Asteroid 6!™ by Howie Monroe), which turned out to be true, but it was not the reason everyone recognized him. Everyone recognized him because of his bursitis.
A giant dog named Hamlet explained it all to him.
“Yer parents, Howard ’n Heather,” Hamlet told him, “wer conj’rers o’ th’ first ord’r. I tell yeh, laddie, they wer known fer ’n wide fer the’r conj’rin’.”
Howie wondered at Hamlet’s way of speaking in apostrophes.
“But ther’s an evil force in th’ world, boyyie-lad. So evil ’iz nam c’not be spoke. When yeh speak ov ’im y’must say, The-Evil-Force-Whose-Nam-C’not-Be-Spoke.”
Cool, Howie thought.