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<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> </span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">L O W L A N D S - L - 01 October 2007 - Volume 03</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Song Contest: <a href="http://lowlands-l.net/contest/">lowlands-l.net/contest/</a> (- 31 Dec. 2007)</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
========================================================================</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">From: Ingmar Roerdinkholder <
<a href="mailto:ingmar.roerdinkholder@WORLDONLINE.NL">ingmar.roerdinkholder@WORLDONLINE.NL</a>></span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Subject: LL-L "Names"
2007.10.02 (08) [E]</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Ronald Veenker <</span><a style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:veenker@atmc.net">
veenker@atmc.net</a><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">> wrote:</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">>How interesting, Roland. I'm glad to meet a distant relative. My
</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">>great grandmother married into the Steketee family in Grand Rapids,</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
>Michigan. They owned several department stores and furniture stores.</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">>There are still Steketee stores in the new parts of Grand Rapids.
</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">That's a coincidence! I wonder how this name "Steketee" is pronounced over
</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">there, I guess something like ["stEkIdi:]? The original Dutch prono is</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
["ste:k@te:], meaning something like "sticking out (protruding) toe" ;-)</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
But I have a different name question: where does the word Google come from?</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">I read it was from Googol (a very large number), but there were already
</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">English words like "goggle" and "googly eyes".</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
I thought it could be a Yiddish word, something like "guckeln" derived</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">from a diminutive of German "gucken", but then it would rather
</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">be "gickeln" of course, which would have given "Giggle".</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Ingmar</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
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