LL-L "Names" 2007.10.06 (03) [E]

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From: Ingmar Roerdinkholder <ingmar.roerdinkholder at WORLDONLINE.NL>
Subject: LL-L "Names" 2007.10.02 (08) [E]

Ronald Veenker <veenker at atmc.net> wrote:
>How interesting, Roland.  I'm glad to meet a distant relative.  My
>great grandmother married into the Steketee family in Grand Rapids,
>Michigan.  They owned several department stores and furniture stores.
>There are still Steketee stores in the new parts of Grand Rapids.

That's a coincidence! I wonder how this name "Steketee" is pronounced over
there, I guess something like ["stEkIdi:]? The original Dutch prono is
["ste:k at te:], meaning something like "sticking out (protruding) toe" ;-)

But I have a different name question: where does the word Google come from?
I read it was from Googol (a very large number), but there were already
English words like "goggle" and "googly eyes".
I thought it could be a Yiddish word, something like "guckeln" derived
from a diminutive of German "gucken", but then it would rather
be "gickeln" of course, which would have given "Giggle".

Ingmar

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