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 meramarina Diglot Moderator United States Joined 5967 days ago 1341 posts - 2303 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: German, Italian, French Personal Language Map | Message 89 of 140 21 October 2009 at 5:56pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Yes, but don't forget that Grief is involved, too!
"Sucky" may be a misspelling of "Sukey" as those records were handwritten generations ago. But why would anyone name their kid "Grief"? Strange ways to be remembered, anyway! 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| janababe Triglot Senior Member Sweden Joined 5514 days ago 102 posts - 115 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English, German | Message 90 of 140 21 October 2009 at 6:03pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I didn't forget, I wrote "Good Grief it's Sucky ....
Well, it's like the Spanish name Dolores. I always said thank Lord ;) my parents didn't name me that. Wasn't a Dutch politician called Minister Kok? In Swedish this is harmless, but in English ooh la la 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| meramarina Diglot Moderator United States Joined 5967 days ago 1341 posts - 2303 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: German, Italian, French Personal Language Map | Message 91 of 140 21 October 2009 at 6:26pm | IP Logged | |||||
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oops, sorry, I misread your message. That's a clever way to put it all together--never thought of that!
I also used to work in a hospital where we had frequent visits from a family with the unfortunate last name "Crotchfelt" I'm sure you can imagine the hilarity this caused us, and awkward exchanges, i.e., "Dr. Blablabla, do you want Mr. Crotchfelt now?" "Eh, no, not really . . . " We also had a lady there named Mary Christmas! 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| janababe Triglot Senior Member Sweden Joined 5514 days ago 102 posts - 115 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English, German | Message 92 of 140 21 October 2009 at 7:01pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Hey no worries
Crotchfelt OMG LMAO that's the best ever (or worst!) Poor guy. If that was my name I'd change it, that's going too far. Mary Christmas... bet her parents were pissed when they did that. Cool name though. There's a man I heard of called Mr Panis ;) I don't know his first name, but like Mr Wang, maybe it's Huge LMAO 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
 Hencke Tetraglot Moderator Spain Joined 6894 days ago 2340 posts - 2444 votes Speaks: Swedish*, Finnish, EnglishC2, Spanish Studies: Mandarin Personal Language Map | Message 93 of 140 23 October 2009 at 8:18pm | IP Logged | |||||
Don't forget that the one in Norway has a much better chance of freezing over though ;o). 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| janababe Triglot Senior Member Sweden Joined 5514 days ago 102 posts - 115 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English, German | Message 94 of 140 25 October 2009 at 7:19pm | IP Logged | |||||
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That's a good one ;)
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| cordelia0507 Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5838 days ago 1473 posts - 2176 votes Speaks: Swedish* Studies: German, Russian | Message 95 of 140 30 October 2009 at 9:24pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I once participated in a conference in Sweden where I'm from.
A British woman also participated, and her name tag said "Pippa Best" When I got chatting to her, she mentioned that a lot of people were staring at her name tag with a strange look. She could not know, of course that "pippa" is the slang word for " _____" And Best happens to be almost the same thing in Swedish. When she mentioned that she was flying back shortly, I decided not to enlighten her --- or she'd cringe for the rest of her life, every time she thought of Sweden. Pippa (nick name for Phillippa) is cute in England, but anybody with that name should remember NOT to use the nickname in Sweden at least. Not sure if it's used in the same way in Norway and Denmark. 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Splog Diglot Senior Member Czech Republic anthonylauder.c Joined 5669 days ago 1062 posts - 3263 votes Speaks: English*, Czech Studies: Mandarin | Message 96 of 140 30 October 2009 at 10:00pm | IP Logged | |||||
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A female colleague from China was called "Wai Ping Li". She married a gentleman by the name of "David Butt". She was "Mrs Wai Ping Butt" for only a few days, when she announced she would like to be known as "Jenny Butt" from now on.
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