Arabic-L:LING:Naming Practices

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Date: 18 Nov 2005
From:Talaat.Pasha at utah.edu
Subject:Naming Practices

Also, in the Delta rural areas of Egypt, people might say when they  
call a person bitt ya-um- Gouda ( meaning: oh [ you] girl the  
daughter of Gouda,  where Gouda is proper name). Although um means  
mother, but here in this context it refers to the daughter and not  
the mother.

Also there are some funny situations where one can have two names  
regardless of any sociolinguistic reason. This actually happened to  
me as I have two names:  one is popular ( at home, friends, area  
where I live) and one in official papers and people call my mom with   
the mom of + popular name. the name was so popular that one of my  
friends at school came once to my house to ask about me, he asked for  
me using my official name,  and my grandma told him “ there is no one  
here by this name, son!”. She did not at that time even recognize  
that I have another name.

What happened is the one who was registering names at the health  
affairs office looks like he had a hearing problem he heard Tarek as  
Talaat. (No phonetic or acoustic reason for that!) . it was too late  
to correct it when my family realized that I have a new name, so they  
kept calling my with one name and kept the new name for the government.

Talaat Pasha
University of Utah

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