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I had to make an enquiry at a help desk last week and needed to give the woman my name. I said Swanson thinking that would be enough. She then wrote down Sheaunsea which I corrected by saying Swan like the bird and son like daughter and son. That didn't help much so I wrote it down for her and then she called someone else and, looking at the card where I had just written the name, said; "Sveasou". Slightly exasperated at this point I just leaned to the phone and said Swanson loudly and finally got the answer I was looking for. Obviously she wasn't a native english speaker but Swanson is actually spelled pretty much phonetically and I'm not sure how you can hear the son part as if it ends in a vowel.
Interesting bit about the double esses, Joakim, I have only ever heard the old family name spoken and never written so I just assumed the lack of an S. As to Peter being a distant cousin, my great grampa had 17 kids and when I went to a family reuninon when I was 12 there was over a barn full of his descendants. Must have been at least 200 of them and probably more that weren't able to attend.
But, and this is key, Kristy Swanson is in no way a relation of mine and thus it is perfectly acceptable for me to lust after her.
Oh, and Steve means Crown. I like that. And Sven is apparently Youth (who names their child kid?) so combined it's Crown Youth's Son. And if two of us are in a room it becomes 'Da two yutes in question'.
Also, just as a bit of trivia, french fries are not french fries because they came from france (from what I understand they came, or were made popular first, in Belgium) they are french fries because of the method by which they are cut. They are frenched fries.
So Tom is Twin cut into long spears. Which is kind of odd when you think about it.
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