Saturday 25 February 2012

0975 HKSAR Name of the Day

Somali Yu Siu Wa (Ms), member, HKU Foundation, Hong Kong

About Novel HKSAR Names
Name Category: Creation; Geography-based

4 comments:

  1. aimlesswanderer18 March 2012 at 16:09

    Hmm, famine, pirates, anarchy, guns. Is the HKU Foundation that feral?

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  2. Totally bizarre name. I like your play with word association AW, which illustrate all the negative aspects that come to mind when the name Somali pops up.

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  3. aimlesswanderer22 March 2012 at 15:07

    I would be very interested to hear how she chose this name... does she like Africa? Is she sympathetic to famine victims?

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  4. Apparently, the HKU Foundation does some charitable work. But this begs the question, did Somali get her name before or after the foundation was formed?

    I too would be very interested to know how this, and many other 'novel' names, are chosen.

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