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Originally posted by Yuri:
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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Oh sure, NOW we find out how to pronounce it!
Yuri, when we had your card signed, Rick Haynes asked us if you were Russian, as Yuri can be a Russian name. I said no, that your last name was...um,...er..well I can spell it for you, but I'm not sure how to pronounce it! John came the closest to saying it right. I knew it was Latvian, but that was the best I could do!
Jenney