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Re: Yaguello's stereotype: response to Roger

From:Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...>
Date:Friday, May 23, 2003, 1:33
On Thu, 22 May 2003 20:34:39 +0100
=?iso-8859-1?q?Jan=20van=20Steenbergen?= <ijzeren_jan@...>
writes:
> That's quite possible. When I saw her name for the first time, the > first > thought that actually occurred to me was that she had to be either > Polish or of Polish ancestry. > The Polish "version" of the name would be "Jagiel\l\o", one of those > names that > are immediately associated with the Polish nobility. "Yaguello" is > obviously a > French representation of that name, which makes me believe that her > ancestors and not herself moved to France. > Jan
- Wow... i always thought her name looked Spanish. -Stephen (Steg) "en catalañazor / perdió almanzor / el atambor."