Wednesday 21 July 2010

Mongolia is Awesome: Names Edition

Bold is common enough to make it into my Mongolian book as the first boy’s name featured, and my guidebook even classifies it as a generic Mongolian name. “But wait,” you might be thinking, “That name is an English word, so you can’t count it as an Awesome purely Mongolian name.” It IS an English word (and a good one), and if that were the only Awesome feature of the name Bold, that would still be pretty Awesome.

But “bold” is also the Mongolian word for “steel,” and is a popular name for boys because of the strength and enduring power of steel. Thus, not only is there a Mongolian Max Steel, but the country is positively CRAWLING with them. Awesome.

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