Re: Anthroponymy (was Re: Re: Laadan)

Jan van Steenbergen wrote:
> > > [...] Actually, I know only one such case, in which the husband had a
> > > really horrible last name and replaced it with his wife's (IMO equally
> > > horrible) name.
> >
> > LOL. I don't know yet what we're gonna do when Jan and I get married.
>We've
> > toyed with the idea of taking each other's name along with our own, but
> > whatever you do, Grandsire-Koevoets and Koevoets-Grandsire both sound
>rather
> > strange ;))))) .
>
>Hehe. I didn't even know that you can also take each other's names. But I
>agree: both sound rather strange :) I think Jan Grandsire sounds better
>after
>all than Christophe Koevoets. No offense to Jan of course. BTW My regards
>to
>him.
Would "Koevoets" be pronounced something like [ku:fu:ts]? If so, it sounds
unpleasantly much like the (indefinite) genitive of Swedish _kofot_, lit
"cow-foot", meaning "crowbar".

                                                    Andreas

_________________________________________________________________
MSN 8 helps eliminate e-mail viruses. Get 2 months FREE*.
http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus

Reply