While doing research on the Romansh post, I spotted the name Not Vital.
Doesn’t even look like a name, does it? But it is.
Not Vital is a Romansh artist. He was born in Sent, Switzerland, in 1948.
His name is pronounced “note vee-TAL.”
Source: Tagliabue, John. “In Multilingual Switzerland, One Tongue Struggles.” New York Times 29 Sep. 2010: A11.
The NYT just printed something else about Vital: Inside the Many Houses of Not Vital, Maker of Dreamscapes for Adults.