Just because taamei hamitzvos is supposed to be one of the core topics
of this email group's host organization....
BTW, my grandfather a"h was named Pinechas after this week's sedra,
his bar mitzvah parashah. When it was time to name my oldest, I checked
with my uncle how his name appeared on their kesuvah, as their mesader
qiddushin was a key rav in my grandfather's life. (R/Dr Mirsky zt"l met
two teenage boys coming off the boat and took them under his wing. My
grandfather and great-uncle then earned enough to bribe the rest of the
family's way out of Litta before the Nazis came to power.)
Anyway, it seems R/Dr Mirsky held my grandfather's name was Pinechas,
pei-yud-nun-ches-samekh, as it is spelled in the chumash (ignoring the
size of the yud as usually written in the beginning of the parashah).
And thus the sheva is na, Pinechas - not Pinchas.
If you want to make a derashah out of a Mitzri name, it's Pi Nachas,
not Pen Chas.
Reason for this tangent... I would have expected "Gushies" to get the
sheva in the parashah name right. After all, they have the patach under
the reish in Parashat.
Tir'u baTov!
-Micha