On Friday 07 February 2003 05:39 pm, Steve Meyers wrote: > On Fri, 2003-02-07 at 16:24, Bryan Murdock wrote: > > Yup, Sasha, in slavic languages, is short for Alexander. Congrats on > > the book Sasha! > > > My wife claims that Sasha is short for just about every name in > Russian... :)
Well, she has a point. Although Sasha is used only for Alexander, Russians are very traditional when it comes to naming their children (although there are exceptions, my father's name is Ikar, Russian version of Greek Ikarus, and he is the only Ikar I know). So Alexander tends to be a very common name. In my grade school class out of 40 students we had 5 Sashas. -- MySQL Development Team For technical support contracts, visit https://order.mysql.com/?ref=mspa __ ___ ___ ____ __ / |/ /_ __/ __/ __ \/ / Sasha Pachev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> / /|_/ / // /\ \/ /_/ / /__ MySQL AB, http://www.mysql.com/ /_/ /_/\_, /___/\___\_\___/ Provo, Utah, USA <___/ MySQL Users Conference and Expo http://www.mysql.com/events/uc2003/ ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
