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Old 09-30-2006, 10:31 AM   #15
Yuri
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Hello John,

Here is a stumper! Try the name 'Amatnieks' and you will be sure to crash any computer and corrupt their data base!

The name is Latvian in origin (one of the Baltic Countries, Estonia, Latvia & Lithuania) and loosly translates as "jack of all trades".
I tend to think of it as "someone who knows very little about a great number of things".

As for Yuri, it is the English equivalent of George, after "George the Dragon Slayer"

Not too many Amatnieks out there!
(pronounced Ah-Mat-nix)

Yuri
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