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Thursday, September 16, 2004

BIBLICAL NAMES ARE "IN" IN AMERICA:
Biblical names hot choices for babies today (News-press.com)

My favorite howler is:
� Michael. A perpetual favorite, from the Hebrew, and means "he who is like God," "Godly" or "close to God."

Michael means "Who is like God?" - a rhetorical question whose answer is "nobody." The translation they give is impossible (and perhaps a bit blasphemous), because Mi in Hebrew is an interrogative pronoun that means "who" when asking a question. "He who" would be another word entirely.

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