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Names are always problematic. I remember a beloved English teacher in 
California who named her daughter Rana, a perfectly respectable Arabic 
name that means "frog" in Spanish and a good French friend in 
Alexandria whose children went to the French school with mine.  His 
name was Yannick, pronounced Ya-neek, nice name, except that in Arabic 
it is the command form for the common verb to procreate.  <G>  He had 
one hell of a time for four years.  Most of us called him Yan to save 
him the embarrassment.  Here Moza is a cut of meat (part of the leg, 
but I'm vegetarian), a banana, and a very hot babe...take your pick.  
Who knows what it would be in Italian?

Before naming anything here, I have to check with several multilingual 
friends or my daughter who will not just know the words but is sure to 
know all the rude ones.

Maryanne
Cairo

On Sunday, Feb 15, 2004, at 05:37 Africa/Cairo, B. L. Kossowan wrote:

> ...Of course, when you post your horse's name on a Web site, there is 
> always
> the possbility of tickling the funny bone (pun intended :P) of someone 
> who
> understands another language. When Wiid was born, I was going to name 
> him
> Vandal, but he grew so fast... When it came time to do his papers, I 
> wanted
> to combine his mother's name, Suzzanne, with my sweetie's last name, 
> Minion,
> and came up with Minnazze Wiid. A couple of years later, I got a short 
> and
> succint  email from some guy in Italy: "Viva la Minnazze!" Not knowing 
> what
> he was talking about, I googled the word and got five hits, all in 
> Italian,
> all of great big wimmin with great big, bare butts. Now, Wiid does 
> have a
> pretty substantial butt for an Ay-rab, but he sure ain't no woman. 
> These
> days, his name is the butt of a more than a few jokes among those who 
> are
> privvy to the gaffe. Sigh.
>
> Brenda K.
>
>
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