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LONDON (Reuters) ? A London-based translation firm is offering parents-to-be the chance to check the meaning of prospective baby names in other languages to avoid inadvertently causing their offspring future embarrassment.
Celebrity couple Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes might have thought twice about naming their daughter Suri if they'd known that it means "pickpocket" in Japanese, "turned sour" in French, and "horse mackerels" in Italian, suggest Today Translations.
For 1,000 pounds ($1,678), the company's linguists will carry out a "basic name translation audit" of names, checking their meaning in 100 languages, or more for an additional cost.
<a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091117/od_nm/us_britain_names_odd">http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091117/od_nm/us_britain_names_odd</a>
Celebrity couple Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes might have thought twice about naming their daughter Suri if they'd known that it means "pickpocket" in Japanese, "turned sour" in French, and "horse mackerels" in Italian, suggest Today Translations.
For 1,000 pounds ($1,678), the company's linguists will carry out a "basic name translation audit" of names, checking their meaning in 100 languages, or more for an additional cost.
<a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091117/od_nm/us_britain_names_odd">http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091117/od_nm/us_britain_names_odd</a>