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Margaret Suran
 
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Joseph Littleshoes wrote:
> Sheldon wrote:
>
>
>> Puester wrote:
>>
>>> Joseph Littleshoes wrote:
>>>
>>>> GRATIS DICTUM ------------------------
>>>>
>>>> I really did not think i needed to do this, given the amount
>>>> of X postings to my favourite little "cooking" group. But
>>>> here goes.
>>>>
>>>> Hello rec.food.cooking.
>>>>
>>>> Ma nom est, Joseph Littleshoes, which is an English
>>>> translation of

>>
>>>> Joseph Paul Stifel,
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Dang, and here I've been thinking for months that you were
>>> native American.
>>>
>>> gloria p


>
> Paul means little and a "stifel" is a type of German boot or shoe,
> hence Littleshoes.



It is STIEFEL, with a silent "e". You mislaid your "e", but that does
not matter. I never knew that Paul means little. What a pretty name
you have. I wonder whether others can make such interesting names out
of their names.