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Tue 21 Aug, 2007 06:57 pm
Ever finked out on a project?
Ever finked on someone?
Have you or someone you love ever been borked?
Do you spend any time wondering whether or not your family name will become associated with something completely unrelated to your loved ones?
Do you think my friend Ruby Frankenstein should change her name?
How about my neighbor Howard Quisling?
Should the great family of Vicks now hunker down for a generation of bad jokes? (Yeah, he's a Vick, a convict.)
Was the name Crapper once proud one to have and hold?
Will the name Ponzi ever recover it's plainness?
Can we ever be Scot-free and in like Flynn?
Is English the only language which does this kind of thing with names or can you give an example or two from other tongues?
Joe(What will Bushed mean in twenty years?)Nation
Quote:What will Bushed mean in twenty years?
Having been converted to the American way of luxury and ease I hope.
At least northern Europe has a mixture of names like you mentioned.
Frankenstein is German, the name Quisling got its bad reputation from Norway.
Many names refer to a trade others to a quality in a person, good, bad, nasty, tall small (all translated) others refer to nature birch, fox etc.
Here is a link.
http://www.last-names.net/
Aw, give me some examples, will you? That link leads to a genealogy site I already use.
Joe(You Piker)Nation
well, the only guy I know is Richard Brane, (never call him Dick).
A Dahmer has unusual gustation habits.
I think that "Bushing" will become synonymous with "not having a clue"
You can have a MacJob.
There is an Oxford Book of British Surnames which is very
very very
detailed.
Food can be greedily scoffed- Escoffier was a famous chef.
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