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| Skandinav Hexaglot Senior Member Denmark Joined 6696 days ago 139 posts - 145 votes  Speaks: Danish*, English, German, Russian, Swedish, Norwegian | Message 17 of 140 10 February 2006 at 6:19am | IP Logged | |||||
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I think the name indicates a former social status: either a noble with a lot of pigs or a pig shepard.
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| Sir Nigel Senior Member United States Joined 6913 days ago 1126 posts - 1102 votes 2 sounds | Message 18 of 140 11 February 2006 at 10:29am | IP Logged | |||||
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I saw the listing for a Roman Lechuga (Lettuce). Spanish has some really funny last names, one of my favourites is Casimiro (almost seen).
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| Lugubert Heptaglot Senior Member Sweden Joined 6676 days ago 186 posts - 235 votes Speaks: Swedish*, Danish, Norwegian, EnglishC2, German, Dutch, French Studies: Mandarin, Hindi | Message 19 of 140 11 February 2006 at 2:20pm | IP Logged | |||||
Yes, Austrian.
I was puzzled for a few seconds, and then I remembered that on another forum there is a Filter(TM) censoring even the title of Rembrandt's famous painting, the N-i-g-h-t-w-a-t-c-h. Having driven through Sc***... a couple of times, I would never have guessed the linguistically nonsensical reaction towards the letters c-u-n-t. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Sir Nigel Senior Member United States Joined 6913 days ago 1126 posts - 1102 votes 2 sounds | Message 20 of 140 11 February 2006 at 9:22pm | IP Logged | |||||
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There's also a little Austrian town that's pronounced like fooking (actually it rimes with "look"), but spelt like the expletive. Edited by Sir Nigel on 11 February 2006 at 9:23pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Skandinav Hexaglot Senior Member Denmark Joined 6696 days ago 139 posts - 145 votes Speaks: Danish*, English, German, Russian, Swedish, Norwegian | Message 21 of 140 13 February 2006 at 10:50am | IP Logged | |||||
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Here's a guy called "Sigheil". http://www.geocities.com/bataviah4/run1021.html
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| Sierra Diglot Senior Member Turkey livinginlights.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6933 days ago 296 posts - 411 votes Speaks: English*, SwedishB1 Studies: Turkish | Message 22 of 140 23 February 2006 at 7:36pm | IP Logged | |||||
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My boss is named Dick Daly.
There's a kid in the seventh grade named Buffalo Hird. (Pronounced like "herd"). Honestly, how cruel is that? 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| mike245 Triglot Senior Member Hong Kong Joined 6781 days ago 303 posts - 408 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Cantonese Studies: French, German, Mandarin, Khmer | Message 23 of 140 11 March 2006 at 5:18pm | IP Logged | |||||
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At work, I met a Korean man named Won Suk Yoo. I'm sure it sounds a lot better in Korean than in English!
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| vinz Tetraglot Groupie United States Joined 6692 days ago 55 posts - 56 votes Speaks: French*, EnglishC2, Vietnamese, Spanish Studies: Arabic (Written) | Message 24 of 140 11 March 2006 at 6:10pm | IP Logged | |||||
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This past Christmas in France, a family named "Paire" named their newborn son "Noel". Putting both together, one gets Paire Noel which means Santa Claus. (The real spelling should be "Père" (Dad). I read that they did it on purpose too. Poor kid.
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