take soundings

To ask questions in order to learn people's opinions about a certan topic. I'm taking soundings to find out what people want to read about in the student newspaper.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Arif	-	Arabic, Indonesian, Urdu, Punjabi, Bengali
Zhannochka	-	Russian
Lucyna	luw-TSI-nah	Polish
MatthÄUs	-	German
Kelcey	KEL-see	English (Rare)
Colm	-	Irish