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Ideal_Rock
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This is interesting *to me at least, anyway*.
Icelandic people have created themselves a system where 1700 male names and 1800 female names are on an 'approved' list for children's names.
This young girl was inadvertently given a name NOT on the approved list... officially she is known as 'girl'.
Now who would have come up with a system like that? Good way of preventing people from choosing 'non-culture' names, I guess.
Although 'Elvis' is now on the list! But names beginning with 'C' are not, because Icelandic does not use the letter 'C'.
http://www.news.com.au/world/icelan...-use-banned-name/story-fndir2ev-1226547645810
Icelandic people have created themselves a system where 1700 male names and 1800 female names are on an 'approved' list for children's names.
This young girl was inadvertently given a name NOT on the approved list... officially she is known as 'girl'.
Now who would have come up with a system like that? Good way of preventing people from choosing 'non-culture' names, I guess.
Although 'Elvis' is now on the list! But names beginning with 'C' are not, because Icelandic does not use the letter 'C'.
http://www.news.com.au/world/icelan...-use-banned-name/story-fndir2ev-1226547645810