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From: Pd on 6 Mar 2010 08:47 zoara <me18(a)privacy.net> wrote: > Pd <peterd.news(a)gmail.invalid> wrote: > > Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid> wrote: > > > > > Wikipaedia and Wikipedia are so close to identical that no-one with > > > a working brain could possibly fail to understand either usage. > > > > Like Rowland and Roland? > > You have an uncanny ability to sum up my multi-paragraph attempts to > make a point by using exceptionally pithy sentences. I'm better pithed. -- Pd
From: Pd on 6 Mar 2010 09:12 zoara <me18(a)privacy.net> wrote: > And the beauty products company Schwarzkopf > might have a hard time selling stuff in English-speaking countries. I've often wondered what the meaning is of the name Schwarzenegger. -- Pd
From: Richard Tobin on 6 Mar 2010 09:15 In article <1jexqln.ntohw3a4vfswN%peterd.news(a)gmail.invalid>, Pd <peterd.news(a)gmail.invalid> wrote: >I've often wondered what the meaning is of the name Schwarzenegger. He says it means "black ploughman". I'm sure Google will give you far more than you wanted to know on the subject... -- Richard -- Please remember to mention me / in tapes you leave behind.
From: Peter Ceresole on 6 Mar 2010 09:39 Richard Tobin <richard(a)cogsci.ed.ac.uk> wrote: > He says it means "black ploughman". I'm sure Google will give you > far more than you wanted to know on the subject... From Gen-de, via Google: The origin of the surname SCHWARZENEGGER is from a place or topographic name Schwarzenegg. Egg means "mountain ridge," schwarz means "black, dark." So it's 'black ridge'. -- Peter
From: Pd on 6 Mar 2010 09:51
Peter Ceresole <peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk> wrote: > Richard Tobin <richard(a)cogsci.ed.ac.uk> wrote: > > > He says it means "black ploughman". I'm sure Google will give you > > far more than you wanted to know on the subject... That's kind of why I haven't been there. > From Gen-de, via Google: > > The origin of the surname SCHWARZENEGGER is from a place or topographic > name Schwarzenegg. Egg means "mountain ridge," schwarz means "black, > dark." > > So it's 'black ridge'. Dang. I thought it might be Black Black, as in schwartz = black, negra = black. -- Pd |