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Member since January 19, 2019
NamePaul
LocationNorthern Germany

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1/23/2019
Anneli
I'm not sure, but this name appears in Northern Germany every so often (I used to associate it with one or two rather elderly women in the villages around my place, but it seems to be becoming popular as a girl's name again - many of the old names do) that I have a hard time believing that it should be labelled as a "Finnish diminuitive" only.... [more]
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1/19/2019
Emil
In Germany, Emil is exclusively a male name. Despite its fame because of the Kästner novel, most people I know tend to think of it as a name for rather dull, run-of-the-mill characters (I think Kästner tried to use that for effect, actually), so most of the time it wasn't particularly popular as a name for actual children.... [more]
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1/19/2019
Emil
Emil Tischbein is the main character of Erich Kästner's famous novel "Emil und die Detektive" (1929), which I think has been translated into English as "Emil and the Detectives".... [more]