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I suggest mine, typically Dutch: Adriaan. (note the double A) Needs correction in countries where "Adrian" seems simplerOk, thanks. I will have to think what would suit the character best. Any other suggestions for names that were popular to name Dutch kids in the end of the sixties?
I vote for 'Peter' . . .Adriaan is a very nice name! Unfortunately another character has a name a bit too close, also the publisher wants me to choose a name without double A. It seems right now it will be Victor, Willem, Sebastian or Alexander.
Here we go: Staf, Jan, Guido, Lode, Jos, Sus, Erik, Karel, Paul,.... You can make your chois.This is a bit of a strange camino question, but here goes:
I have written a book that to a large part take place on the Camino (a bit like The Way but the main character is a woman and a lot younger) and now it is to be published in Sweden to begin with, but who knows what will happen... I wish to change name of one of the main characters. He is Dutch, around 40 years old and needs to have a bit of an international sounding name. Any Dutch people in here who has any names to suggest? Thank you very much for helping!
Hope not in your book like in "the Way" the Dutch character is a cliché drugs addict.This is a bit of a strange camino question, but here goes:
I have written a book that to a large part take place on the Camino (a bit like The Way but the main character is a woman and a lot younger) and now it is to be published in Sweden to begin with, but who knows what will happen... I wish to change name of one of the main characters. He is Dutch, around 40 years old and needs to have a bit of an international sounding name. Any Dutch people in here who has any names to suggest? Thank you very much for helping!
Please remember that 99%of the Dutch shorten their name to the minimum. Therefore my husband Adriaan, alias fraluchi, is known as Ad. Thinking back of family members we have Rob, Hans, Wil, Bart, Joh. Basically all shorten versions of something more " elegant"! Anne.I suggest mine, typically Dutch: Adriaan. (note the double A) Needs correction in countries where "Adrian" seems simpler
The Dutch may have some confusing last names, like "van der Dong", "van der Fart", etc.... So take that also into your name-chosing...
Indead, when you calle that guy 'Piet Uit de Broeck' or 'Piet De Cloot' or 'Joop Den Uyl' everybody will know he is comming from Holland and not from Flanders in Belgium where 66 % is Flemisch people who speak Dutch. The reasen of this funny and crazy names is that during the time of Napoleon the Hollands people were obligate to have a second 'last name'. But a lot of Hollands people were not in mind this name was forever...It was for making joke with the French occupier who did'nt understand this words. 'Piet' is standing for 'penis' and 'Cloot' for 'testis' and 'Uit de Broeck' for 'out of the pantalon'. Maybe it is better to choose for a Flemisch Dutch name...The Dutch may have some confusing last names, like "van der Dong", "van der Fart", etc.... So take that also into your name-chosing...
Hey då , jag arbetade i Sverige- egentlig i hela Scandinavia men det var för langt.No, Albert. This Dutch guy is very pleasant towards everyone. He is a gentleman and knows a lot about Roman architecture. As stated above he was born in the mid/late sixties, so the name I am looking at should be available during that period. Right now I am looking mostly at Victor, Willem and Pieter (is Peter the same name as Pieter).
Tack så mycket för hälsningen. Hur kommer det sig att du kan skriva på svenska?
Adriaan-my wife and I will be walking our first Camino this September, 2014. I am so excited I can not control my excitement. I see from you profile you have walked many and plan on another Camino this year. Buen Camino to you. I am reaching out to you for again from your profile you live or did live in Costa Rico. Am I correct? My wife and I after the Camino when we return to the US plan on relocating to Costa Rico, Ecuador or Panama. We are moving for I have had it with winter and cold weather. Can you share any advise or web sites that might be worth exploring to help in the decision process?I suggest mine, typically Dutch: Adriaan. (note the double A) Needs correction in countries where "Adrian" seems simpler
Buen camino! You may write to me on fraluchi @ yahoo . com (delete the spaces)...my wife and I will be walking our first Camino this September, 2014. I am so excited I can not control my excitement.[...] Can you share any advise or web sites that might be worth exploring to help in the decision process?
The former prime minister was called Wim Kok. On one of his foreign trips he went a former minister who was at that time CEO of the Dutch Mail company, Wim Dik.
So Wim Kok and Wim Dik represented the Netherlands at that time
Here is another former member of parliament:
Mycket bra !Sorry, I will stick to Pieter, since it suits the character and also the manuscript. Btw here is a picture of the book cover. Thank you all!CamillaView attachment 8565
did not we all know what we could expect the first time ?Thanks for your info on O Cebreiro. I have been using John Brierley's guide book for the names but intend to look through all city and village names again.
As for the short name of Pieter, I suppose he is called Piet back home in Holland, but when meeting people on the Camino he will call himself Pieter, especially since on of the persons in the walking family is Michael, a rather formal man from UK, who never would use short names
PS. I fear the day experienced pilgrims will read the novel. Even if I have tried to be true to the path it is my memories from the Camino and my encounters that has colored the story, together with a lot of fiction. I have had a few test readers who walked the Camino, who say they recognize the path, the villages they walk through and the ambiance of the whole thing, but of course some people will hate it. Especially since the main character, Emma, is a youngish woman (rather selfish and superficial) who set out on the Camino as something to do during summer after a break-up with her boyfriend and being stressed out from too much work. She has no idea what a pilgrimage is, and certainly not that it will change her life forever …
Either Pieter or Peter are (or used to be) very common in the NL . . .Oh, lucky you to walk the Camino so soon. I was supposed to walk in September, but now I am to release a book about the Camino in September instead. Funny thing how the Camino provides ... Well, well, the physical path of the Camino will stay.
Ok, so off goes Alexander. Is it the same with Sebastian, i.e. Sebastiaan or is it possible to have with one a. Is Peter normally spelled Peter or Pieter, or are that two different names? This guy is typically middle class/upper middle class and very well educated. Would Victor, Pieter, Peter and Willem suit?
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