children's names

Or Offensive Offending Naming Offenses?!? OOFO!  Gewurz Grain (a dealer in grain?) Radish Rindskopf (a dealer in Radish?) Getreide Spice (a dealer in spices?) Horse Pisoheles (someone who sells horse piss/urine?) Schmetterling Ladstockschwinger (someone who inflicts a swinging blow with a rod)?

In the 18th to to early 19th century when registration of names and family names became mandatory for European Jews, petty governmental officials assigned uncomplimentary and ludicrous names to those who occupied a "comparatively low status in sane communities". The rich bought the most attractive names derived from flowers, precious stones and gems (Rosenberg, Goldberg, etc.) The penniless were given unflattering names designed to disparage and to inflict more needless ridicule and suffering.

Names of viruses...Influenza A H1N1. I am sticking to SWINE FLU - no offence to the pigs but just easier to pronounce and it's easy to relate why the virus was named so in the first place. When pig farmers get upset over the name, suddenly the words "SWINE FLU" has become a brand.

May be I should add my own term for it - the "Mutated Swine Flu" (similiar but not 100% same as 1976's Swine Flu). Or patent it as MWF!! lol

In order to appease interest groups offended by "pork associations" for the virus, Team Obama started referring to the Swine Flu as 'H1V1'.  Erm....too late?

The Christmas Disease (Hemophilia B)