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Archives for April 16th, 2004

Just for the hell of it, here’s a list of the incoming EU member states, how many hits they have on Google (via their English name) and what the most popular result is:

New EU Members & Google
Country Google Hits (in millions) Top Result
Poland 15.60 CIA World Factbook
Hungary 12.20 Hungarian Home Page
Malta 12.00 Visit Malta
Cyprus 10.40 Visit Cyprus
Estonia 8.18 CIA World Factbook
Czech Republic 8.05 Czech.cz
Slovenia 7.89 Slovenia Tourism
Latvia 7.62 CIA World Factbook
Lithuania 7.47 CIA World Factbook
Slovakia 7.37 Slovakia.org

You’re probably thinking to yourself: “What’s the point of all this?”

Well, as Captain Hill says to Eriksson in Casualties of War: “There ain’t no point, Eriksson. I’m simply trying to illuminate the terrain in which we currently find ourselves deployed.”

Posted on Friday, April 16, 2004 to EU ¦ Comments (8)

A list of Slovenian names, and their origins, can be found here.

I was surprised to see that the ubiquitous “Maja” isn’t on the list. According to this site (and I don’t vouch for its accuracy) the origins of Maja are German/Polish/Scandinavian. I always thought of it as Slavic.

Also missing from the list is one of the earliest known Slovenian names; one that is currently (and unfortunately) making a comeback here: Gal. I can’t say I enjoy that one. It makes me think of “gall”, as in “gall bladder,” which brings up all sorts of unpleasant images. It’s a masculine name, by the way.

You can go here for the rest: Behind the Name: Slovene Names.

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