civil serpent

n. a civil servant. You have no idea the kinds of things “civil serpents” have to put up with.

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Apollo	[ə'pɔləu]
Olja	-	Serbian
Achille	a-SHEEL (French), ah-KEEL-le (Italian)	French, Italian
Melville	MEL-vil	English
Bernarda	-	Slovene, Croatian, Spanish
Lewis	LOO-is	English