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Tuesday, April 25, 2006

TomKat clearly didnt know their Hebrew...

Who ever said that knowing biblical languages doesn't have real-life utility?

From ABC News:

Suri, the name chosen by Hollywood couple Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes for their newborn daughter, is raising more than its share of interest in Israel. It means "get out of here" in the local language, Hebrew.

"I really don't know what they were thinking when they chose this name. It's a term that denotes expulsion, like 'Get out of here'," said Gideon Goldenberg, a linguistics professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

"It's pretty blunt."

A Cruise family spokesman said last week that Suri has its origins in ancient Hebrew, as a variant on Sarah, the biblical matriarch. But that pronunciation is all but unknown in Israel. [source]

I agree with the article, they should have just called her "Scram!"
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