(January 8, 2016 at 6:27 pm)ignoramus Wrote: I'd say it's one of those things where you simplify your name (or your parents do) to make life easier for yourself.
The German couple next door are Harold and Linda, but that's how they want us to refer to them.
His name is actually Harald, and I can't even remember how she spelt her real name.
In that generation (if his name is Harald, he is now probably over 50, more likely around 60, right?) her name could be Gerlinde.
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition