On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 7:24 PM, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Mon, 14 Nov 2005, Franck wrote: Sorry for commenting on this email only now but I found it in my archive while looking for a different thread :-) >> oops, sorry Andreas for that ! I use to spelling this name without 's' >> that's why I did the mistake I think. > > In Finland and Sweden Andrea without the "s" is a girls name, while > Andreas with the "s" (or André without "-as") is a boy. > > It's not even very rare. "Andrea" was the 84th most popular female name in > Sweden in 2000. > > It can be confusing, since in Italy (and, I think, southern Germany and > much of Eastern Europe), "Andrea" is a boy, and in fact, the name > originally comes from the Greek meaning "man". In Italy Andrea might be a girl as well even if that name is often used for a boy. Ciao, -- Paolo http://paolo.ciarrocchi.googlepages.com/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
