Re: new Klingon spelling

On Tuesday, January 6, 2004, at 10:17  AM, Benct Philip Jonsson wrote:

> At 17:18 6.1.2004, Dirk Elzinga wrote:
>
>> What about a 'dirk'? Looking in the OED online, I find that they
>> discredit a Gaelic origin for the word. The Scots word was 'durk' or
>> 'dork' (stop snickering), itself possibly borrowed from N. Germanic
>> 'dolk' (German 'dolch') "dagger".
>>
>> Dirk "the knife"
>
> According to http://www.behindthename.com:
>
> DIRK   m   Dutch, English
> Pronounced: DURK
> Short form of DIEDERIK. This is also the word for a type of dagger.
[snip]

I'm aware of the etymology of my name and am rather proud of it, too.
All of my other siblings have Hebrew or Romance names (Pieter, Steven,
Yolanda, Monique); I'm the only one with a genuine Germanic given name
to go with the genuine Germanic surname! But it's fun to take advantage
of the homophony between my name and the etymologically unrelated knife
word, too.

Dirk
--
Dirk Elzinga
Dirk_Elzinga@byu.edu

If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so
simple we couldn't.
- Lyall Watson

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