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I had a customer in about 2002 called Adolf, shortened generally to Adie.
I think in Iceland the tradition was / is that you're named after your father. So if you're christened Magnus or Ingrid and your dad was called Sven, you became Magnus Svenson or Ingrid Svensdottir. Hence when looking for someone in an Icelandic phone book, you needed to know what their dad was called.
I think in Iceland the tradition was / is that you're named after your father. So if you're christened Magnus or Ingrid and your dad was called Sven, you became Magnus Svenson or Ingrid Svensdottir. Hence when looking for someone in an Icelandic phone book, you needed to know what their dad was called.
Turbobanana said:
I had a customer in about 2002 called Adolf, shortened generally to Adie.
I think in Iceland the tradition was / is that you're named after your father. So if you're christened Magnus or Ingrid and your dad was called Sven, you became Magnus Svenson or Ingrid Svensdottir. Hence when looking for someone in an Icelandic phone book, you needed to know what their dad was called.
Same as Adidas founder Adolf Dassler. Known as Adi. I think in Iceland the tradition was / is that you're named after your father. So if you're christened Magnus or Ingrid and your dad was called Sven, you became Magnus Svenson or Ingrid Svensdottir. Hence when looking for someone in an Icelandic phone book, you needed to know what their dad was called.
DodgyGeezer said:
there are quite a few South Africans called Adolf (including several Springboks)
IIRC Iceland has a requirement to call their children something 'Icelandic' and are quite strict about it. Over here Gary is dying out as a name
Boris might take a hit now...IIRC Iceland has a requirement to call their children something 'Icelandic' and are quite strict about it. Over here Gary is dying out as a name
Brian doesn’t seem as popular as it used to be either... I blame Monty Python for the decline.
(I suppose a few ‘Garys’ were named as their Mother was a Mr Barlow fan)
NB: My Daughter is having her first child in September... it will be a ‘Mitchell’.
( A few names have been suggested).
Edited by Milkyway on Thursday 23 March 16:57
QJumper said:
Apparently iin the UK in 2020 there were no babies names Nigel, but 15 called Lucifer.
My mother worked for a company in the 80's and a white European bloke joined called Niger, pronounced Nee-jer. Being up t'North people called him the N word that rhymes with Tigger so in the end the memo went round to call him Nigel.
DodgyGeezer said:
there are quite a few South Africans called Adolf (including several Springboks)
IIRC Iceland has a requirement to call their children something 'Icelandic' and are quite strict about it. Over here Gary is dying out as a name
Yep, Adolph, Adolphus is not uncommon among the Afrikaans community. IIRC Iceland has a requirement to call their children something 'Icelandic' and are quite strict about it. Over here Gary is dying out as a name
There is a Namibian politician called Adolf Hitler.
LordBretSinclair said:
Mike Krack, not even Michael...love his parents sense of humour. Edited by Milkyway on Friday 24th March 16:16
LunarOne said:
I used to have an American customer called Gaylord. I just have no idea how something like that can happen - even in America!
I happened upon that name in Florida, at the Gaylord Center. Huge letters across the side of the building.And yes it was just as funny to most Floridians as it was to me. But just a big boring convention centre rather than a one-step shop for all one's homosexual needs.
Koyaanisqatsi said:
QJumper said:
Apparently iin the UK in 2020 there were no babies names Nigel, but 15 called Lucifer.
We had a Lucifer in our year at school (late 90s to early 2000s), almost always just shortened to Luci.Although I suspect he may have change his name by deed poll
Zetec-S said:
TUS373 said:
I met an Adolf last year. South American living in the USA. First Adolf I have heard of....other than...you know.
Was he very very old? Say about 130ish. Spent a lot of time in Argentina. Hint of a German accent. Little grey tash…? The rig had come up from South America. Think it was Brazil.
On a rig, there's a Personnel on Board list, usually a big whiteboard that shows what rooms people are in & what their muster point is.
I swear, just about every name was a mixture of Spanish & German.
Jose Goebbels
Juan Himmler
Carlos Goering
Pedro Eichmann
Manuel Heydrich
Etc.
Lots of Blonde hair & blue eyes too. Hmmmmm.
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