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Thread #104521   Message #2141407
Posted By: Rapparee
05-Sep-07 - 09:04 AM
Thread Name: BS: No funny jokes about people's names
Subject: RE: BS: No funny jokes about people's names
Doellman, orginally umlauted on the 'o'. I'm told that it means 'goalie' in Dutch, and orginally meant something like "altar keeper" or "keeper of the sacred place." You can imagine...my father was nicknamed "Dolly."

By the way, I could pronounced "Oesterreich" Germanically the first time I saw it. Even knew what it meant. Of course, I have relatives named "Oestermueller."