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Response to Do Last Names have Meanings? 2009-01-27 22:13:51 Reply

At 1/27/09 10:11 PM, JadeTheAssassin wrote: Mine relates to Italian nobility.

Fuck you, I could have been a contessa.

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Response to Do Last Names have Meanings? 2009-01-27 22:23:59 Reply

My last name is Merchant...apparently my ancestors use to sell things.


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Response to Do Last Names have Meanings? 2009-01-27 22:25:23 Reply

At 1/27/09 10:13 PM, DgsGaming wrote:
At 1/27/09 10:11 PM, JadeTheAssassin wrote: Mine relates to Italian nobility.

Fuck you, I could have been a contessa.
Pfft. You could never pull that off.

I so could.
well.

maybe if I had to do the whole Princess Diaries she-bang with the charm school and learn how to be a refined lady of the manorhwofhwofhwof

I can't give up my wild tomfoolery.


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Response to Do Last Names have Meanings? 2009-01-27 22:26:44 Reply

Yes. Mine means Night in German. If I was in Germany, I'd get ALL the chicks.

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Response to Do Last Names have Meanings? 2009-01-27 22:26:45 Reply

At 1/27/09 10:23 PM, PossiblePancakes wrote: My last name is Merchant...apparently my ancestors use to sell things.

Hmmmm.

What can you do for me, stranger?

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Response to Do Last Names have Meanings? 2009-01-27 22:31:31 Reply

At 1/27/09 10:26 PM, JadeTheAssassin wrote:
At 1/27/09 10:23 PM, PossiblePancakes wrote: My last name is Merchant...apparently my ancestors use to sell things.
Hmmmm.

What can you do for me, stranger?

That's more like Muslim Drug Dealer.

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Response to Do Last Names have Meanings? 2009-01-27 22:39:58 Reply

Stolen from a book:

A "Carter" is a delivery person who drove a cart from town to town.

If your last name is Cooper,one of your ancestors might have been a maker of wooden barrels. (From the old dutch worb kupe,meaning "tub.")

The name Kellogg literally means a hog-killer, a nickname for pork butchers, derived from "kill hog."

My cereal is made of bacon. :)

A "Parker" wasn't a parking valet, he was the grounds-keeper of a park surrounding a nobleman's estate.

The name Stone comes from a worker who cut stone for a living.

In the middle ages, "Leach" was a word for "doctor." It came from an old English word laece, that also meant "leech", beacause medieval doctors used blood-sucking leeches on their patients.

I thought they still did?

A "Black" was a cloth-dyer whose specialty was shades of black.

Blacks worked with cotton LOLOLOLO

Do you know anyone named Chamberlain? (Wtf?) A chamberlain was a personal servant who cleaned the chambers (rooms) of a nobleman's home.

A "Kemp" was a wrestler from cempa, the old English word for "champion" or "warrior."

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Response to Do Last Names have Meanings? 2009-01-27 22:42:02 Reply

Apparently my name means lord.

Behold.

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Response to Do Last Names have Meanings? 2009-01-27 23:12:33 Reply

At 1/27/09 10:42 PM, MrNiceGuytm wrote: Apparently my name means lord.

Behold.

KNEEL

No you Kneel, bitch. IM DIVINE. AND IMMORTAL


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Response to Do Last Names have Meanings? 2009-01-27 23:18:28 Reply

My last name translate to "(the) nettle", as in "stinging nettle".


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Response to Do Last Names have Meanings? 2009-01-27 23:19:01 Reply

At 1/27/09 11:12 PM, RyuMaple wrote: No you Kneel, bitch. IM DIVINE. AND IMMORTAL

We must do BATTLE!

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Response to Do Last Names have Meanings? 2009-01-27 23:19:24 Reply

At 1/27/09 07:06 PM, DonPatch-0110 wrote: Do they? I'm not giving out mine. Lol.

Mine has roots going back to Dionysius.

..pretty much anything English closely related to "Dennis" is..

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Response to Do Last Names have Meanings? 2009-01-27 23:24:05 Reply

At 1/27/09 11:18 PM, Dalario wrote: My last name translate to "(the) nettle", as in "stinging nettle".

And my second one translate to "sspen" (the tree). I guess my ancestors liked plants a lot.


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