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Wednesday, May 31, 2006

In the name of the daughter…


Language experts are amazed Tom Cruise and has named his baby daughter SURI – thinking it meant "Princess" in Hebrew. According to Hebrew linguists, Suri has only two meanings - one is a person from Syria and the other "go away" when addressed to a female." Suri can also be translated into a Hindi boy's name, and it also means "pointy nose" in some Indian dialects, "pickpocket" in Japanese and "Help me!" in Babylonian!

1 Comments:

At 3:59 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

... a practical joke by a so called friend perhaps? So glad the school I attended all those years ago is not taking itself so serioulsy anymore. Blogs in'pink' what ever next? Hey did they let girls in yet? Adrian Parker

 

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