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Re: funky surnames
Wading my way through the digest...
Mark van Hornsveld interjected:
> Schermerhorn Schermerhorn Schermerhorn Schermerhorn
> Schermerhorn!
>
> Sometimes it's an advantage being Dutch :)
Yeah, but I doubt you'd really pronounce it like I've
been taught. When I was in Holland it was more like:
Skare-mare-horen, but all gutteral in a way I can't
replicate properly ;-)
There's a little town by "my" name up north of
Amsterdam (roughly, it's been a while). I long to
return.
Liesel added this little anecdote:
> i once told a sidewalk salesman i would buy
> everything
> on his table if he could spell my name, my street's
> name and the name of the town i grew up in:
>
> liesel tarquini
> zieglerville road
> schwenksville
>
> he left me alone after that.
That's the most I laughed all weekend. Thank you for
that!
But where would Schwenksville be exactly?
(of course, as soon as I send this I'll look in the
maps section on Yahoo!)
Refusing to go to bed,
Brian
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~Charles A. Lindbergh, at a news conference after his trans-Atlantic flight
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