I almost posted the original yesterday; it was pretty cute — and there is indeed “a grain of truth” to it, but neither the Mirror or the Guardian want to mention the Mohammed in the room.
In Portland, Nick talked about her study of present-day German attitudes toward names in use during the Third Reich. She asked German respondents to rate the degree of importance the Nazi period had for the names they might select for their children. Then she asked them whether they would name their daughters a variety of Aryan- and Jewish-sounding names; the respondents could answer “yes,” “no,” or “maybe” to each name. Her talk in Portland focused on four of them: Adolfine, Hitlerike (“-ike,” pronounced “ee-keh,” is a feminine ending in German), Yehudit, and Sulamith.
