Monday, July 9, 2007
What's in a name?
If you had a name that was part of your heritage, but offensive to others, would you consider changing it? Naw, I wouldn't either. And I'm glad to read these people didn't either, even though a Catholic School refused to admit their 5 year old son because the family's last name is Hell and only reluctantly agreed when the family went public.
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In the Scandinavian language, Hell means "Luck".
But it is amazing how some words always means something rude in another language. (Never anything nice.) At a time when I worked as a music-teacher and wanted the children to bring songes from their country, it was always some other that could not sing that'n that song, because some words in the song had a nasty, rude, impolite meaning in another language.
The article did say he was of Norwegian descent. So, probably about the same.
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