Double-Dutch

Sep 20, 2012 12:42

If you are a Dutch parent and want to potentially ruin your child's life from the getgo, you can Christen them with a name that will sound utterly ridiculous when pronounced in English.

It is rather old fashioned yet perfectly acceptable in the Netherlands to name ones son Jaap or even Huib. However if you really want to fuck any chances of anyone ever taking your kid seriously you could call him Wart, Koen, Joke or Freek.

Typical Dutch last names often leave a lot to be desired and also very little to the imagination. Somewhere in this country there must be someone named Freek Kok and there is certainly a Joke with the last name Fokker, or what about Wart Kok? He must be out there somewhere too.

But my favorite Dutch name of all time is Fokje Modder. Not surprisingly he only has 3 friends.

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