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Kevin Hagerman
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But "Hammerhead" is longer...
Ah.
Well played.
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Steve D Swanson
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Swanson is a scottish name, but I think it's a Scottishized name for viking invaders from Sweden (Svensen). Our family name was Canadianized when my great grampa arrived in Canada, which I like because it's almost as if we were adopted and folded in to our new country and became just Canadians who happened to have been swedish. My mom's family name is Kehoe and is Irish.
We grew up in a small town on the outskirts of Calgary (where I still live, but nowadays it's hard to tell where the boundaries are as they're starting to creep towards one another) and we were the only Swansons in town. I was actually kind of surprised to find out later that it's a pretty common name.
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Joakim Jahlmar
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Hammerhead, how do they want to spell it if you don't walk them through it? To me it looks like the most logical spelling in the world... unless you pronounce very differently from how it looks.
Steve, just for the record, the Swedish version would be Svensson not Svensen which sounds more like Norwegian or Danish. Sweden has a lot of surnames ending in "son" (which, just as in English means son) and those surnames normally contains double S, like Svensson, since that "extra" S is a gentive case. So, literally, Svens son i.e. Sven's son. So basically the same type of tradition as the Scottish Mac and Irish O'.
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Tom French
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The shit I learn on this thread.
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Lars Johansson
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A movie or Tom, two Svenssons getting married
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPSfjReeC_k
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Peter Svensson
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Yes. I have trouble with my last name. I get Svenson or Swensen pretty consistently. The fact that I do not look Swedish at all also makes life interesting. People see my name on a resume and expect someone Nordic, not a Brazilian-American mutt.
Oh! I also get "Sevenson" a lot. The "Sv" sound isn't common in English, so many people struggle to pronounce it properly.
Edited by Peter Svensson on 13 December 2008 at 12:38pm
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Tom French
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So, it's possible that Steve SWANSON and Peter SVENSSON are distantly related! (He's a big hunk o' man, Peter! And he could be your cousin!)
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Mike Purdy
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Purdy is apparently one of the last few remaining French oath names, and means "Par Dieu", "For God". So my name, Michael Purdy, means "One who is like God, For God" Too bad I have no use for God or religion.
My brother would be "Wagonmaker for God". That's pretty lame!
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Al Cook
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I have no idea what my last name means.
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Kevin Hagerman
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It means Brian Talley's real last name is Moore.
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Brian Talley
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Well done, Kevin.
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Jodi Moisan
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Lars I love that commercial.
I wanted to share some mom news, my son went out to L.A. this week to interview for an internship in the entertainment industry and had 9 interviews and all of them asked him to work for them. He is leaning towards Dark Horse because of the connection with his 2 true loves , movie and comics. He also was excited by the Weinstein Company where he would be a script reader.
While he was out in LA he went to The Golden Apple and got to meet Grant Morrison with Jimmy Palmiotti and Christo Gage. He is going to love LA.
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