Creating a Custom Name List
Gwill:
Quote from: sagana on 2007 June 12, 22:34:08
I believe in Iceland they still use a traditional naming scheme that includes "jonsdattir or svensdottir and stefansson or helgarsonur, depending on the child's gender, so definate need for a different list male to female.
An interesting bit of trivia: Because of this, the Icelandic phone book is sorted by first name.
Sagana:
Yeah, my dad (who spent 6 months in Iceland doing research) says it's a horrid godawful mess to find anyone in the phone book.
SaraMK:
Yeah... but... don't they only have like 500,000 people? Can't be that hard.
Sagana:
You ever try to find the right "John" in a list of 500,000?
Gwill:
It's no harder to look for John Smith under J than it is to look for him under S.
If you think about it, it makes more sense considering that a person named Leif Bjørnson, the last name just indicates that his father is named Bjørn. Unless you happen to know his father, it's more likely for you to be able to identify the correct "Leif" by looking under L than under B.
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