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Hi, guys. My friend Margaret has just become a grandmother - again, a little boy after one boy and three girls. So far, so good.
Her late husbnd was Robert, an excellent man. Her daughter's married to a lovely guy called Ernst, from an Afrikaans family; his father is Eben (EE-uh-b'n), short for Ebeneser - biblical names often happen in Afrikaans families.
And the new baby, you cry -what is the new baby's name?
Roben. Not Robin, Roben. And, one is told cheerfully, he can go by either Rob or Ben. (Wonderful names, honest - but, well, not when joined together like something genetically modified.)
I'm taking this rather badly.
No word of a middle name yet, and frankly I dare not ask.
Her late husbnd was Robert, an excellent man. Her daughter's married to a lovely guy called Ernst, from an Afrikaans family; his father is Eben (EE-uh-b'n), short for Ebeneser - biblical names often happen in Afrikaans families.
And the new baby, you cry -what is the new baby's name?
Roben. Not Robin, Roben. And, one is told cheerfully, he can go by either Rob or Ben. (Wonderful names, honest - but, well, not when joined together like something genetically modified.)
I'm taking this rather badly.
No word of a middle name yet, and frankly I dare not ask.
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- you don't know me but so what - and away i go into the wild yonder. yipee!
- you don't know me but so what - and away i go into the wild yonder. yipee!
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Bah, maybe you are witness no the bith of an historical name!
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And there are - perhaps, were - the Wizard of Id strips, in one of which the Wiz is travelling by coach and gets robbed by a forest-dwelling gang. He shakes his fist in impotent fury, shouting in fluent medieval American: Come back, you lousy robbin' hoods - and then looks puzzled, because it somehow sounds familiar ...
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