"Drop a hard _J_"

[James A. Landau <JJJRLandau@netscape.com>]

On Tue, 6 Mar 2012 16:05:22 zone minus 0500 George Thompson <george.thompson at NYU.EDU> wrote:

"Speaking of _Major_, Major Lance was hardly the first black male to
bear that as a first name. During my childhood, I had a couple of
schoolmates by that name. And I really envied them for their cool
name. And when I discovered that "Frank" Willis was officially
"Franklin Delano Roosevelt" Willis, OMG!
"But that was then."

Probabbly totally irrelevant, but I have a first cousin named Major Landau.  Yes, "Major" is his given name.  It was an Anglicization of "Meir", originally the name given to a rabbi of the post-Bar Kochba period and one of the, well, major contributors to the Mishnah.  The name means "briner of light" or "illuminator".

    - Jim Landau


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