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Name | Date | Lines |
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| 9.1 | More on ROBERT | 42120::BATE | | Wed Jul 16 1986 12:02 | 12 |
| ROBERT
Quite right as to Germanic origin.
Originally passed into Old English as "Hrothi-bert", but
I'm damned if I know which one means 'bright' and which
one means 'fame'.
Other diminutives : Rob, Robbie, Rabbie (with a Scottish
accent, as in the poet Burns), Bob, Bobby.
All in all, a good name.
Bob
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| 9.2 | BERT = FAME | NCMWVX::WARRENS | | Thu Jul 17 1986 11:35 | 3 |
| Re: .1 BERT must mean fame ---- as in Bert and Ernie :>
Randy
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| 9.3 | good guess, but wrong | 15521::ROBERT | Please, make them go away! | Thu Jul 17 1986 20:21 | 7 |
| Sorry, Randy:
In German, Ruhm means fame, and the word for "glory" (which I rendered
as "brightness") is Pracht. Hence, Ruhm-pracht, Rupprecht, Rupert,
Robert. "glorious fame" would be a better translation, but I don't
want to be too egotistical. ;-)
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| 9.4 | no Robert, Jr. here | APEHUB::STHILAIRE | the dishes can wait | Mon Jan 30 1989 10:27 | 8 |
| Too common. Should not be selected as a name anymore due to absurd
overuse. When I was expecting our daughter my then husband, named
Robert (Bob), said, "Whatever we do, if it's a boy we won't name
it Robert. All my life, whenever I'm someplace doing something,
somebody says, "Bob", and 5 guys, including myself answer!"
Lorna
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| 9.5 | Robert is not too bad! | MXOV02::GUZMAN | | Mon Oct 21 1991 21:38 | 15 |
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Maybe Robert is too common, but it is a nice name.
In Mexico we translate it to "Roberto" and there are many names which
end with "berto" (like Alberto, Cutberto, Aldalberto, Heberto, etc)
and I think this is an ellegant one.
In M�xico we name all the Roberts & Alberts as "BETO". This is
the nickname of my uncle (Roberto), my grand father's (Alberto), my
brother (Alberto) and will be of my baby nephew (Alberto too).
I know this note is quite old. with some luck someone other will read
it and maybe reply to it 8-)
Martin.
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