I wonder why Edit: interesting, this seems to be mainly an English phenomenon, a lot of examples but they are all from other languages. The exception being Biggs, although I've never met a Biggs.
I wonder why Edit: interesting, this seems to be mainly an English phenomenon, a lot of examples but they are all from other languages. The exception being Biggs, although I've never met a Biggs.
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NegentropicBoy@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 72d
Interesting observation!
Gross, Langemann, Legrande?
Armstrong also.
TwoTiredMice@feddit.dk · 2 pts · 71d
Fun fact, in Danish, we call the middle finger langemand.
LaLuzDelSol@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 71d
Yeah I did think of Armstrong, although that's not quite rhe same thing. Still a pretty sweet last name though I feel like you kinda have to be some kind of craftsman with a name like that.
helix@feddit.org · 2 pts · 67d
Or a wrestler
teft@piefed.social · 21 pts · 72d
The last name Grant comes from French and means grand or big or giant.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grant_(surname)
Agent641@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 71d
As we know, Ariana Grande is 6'8" and has biceps like a regular man's thighs.
MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown@fedia.io · 1 pts · 72d
Talk about nominative determinism
helix@feddit.org · 1 pts · 67d
So Hugh Grant is just a large large person?
lettruthout@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 72d
Yeah, but there is “Grossman”. In German “gross” or “groß” means big.
poweruser@lemmy.sdf.org · 3 pts · 71d
Also Dick, as in Philip K. Dick. In German Dick = thick = fat
ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 72d
Long?
leadore@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 72d
Yes, Long meant tall in Old English and Old French.
schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de · 10 pts · 71d
Maybe not in English? Plenty of people are named Groß in the German speaking world.
ValiantDust@feddit.org · 7 pts · 71d
Yeah, I don't think Groß (big) and Lang (long) are any less common than Klein (small) and Kurz (short)
finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 71d
Nonsense. There's the famous John Bigbooté.
db2@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 71d
No matter where you go, there you are.
lonefighter@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 71d
Biggs is a surname
FanciestPants@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 71d
Ariana
DrunkenPirate@feddit.org · 6 pts · 71d
In my German region are many family names called „Lange“ „Langer“ „Langes“ which means tall guy.
halfeatenpotato@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 71d
Last name Grande in spanish is "large"
ohulancutash@feddit.uk · 4 pts · 71d
Long, Large, Biggs, Tall are all English surnames
LaLuzDelSol@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 70d
True, I did think of Long, although the etymology of that one isn't always clear. For Irish people apparently "Long" is derived from the Gaelic word for seafarer.
arctanthrope@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 72d
the surname Homan is sometimes derived from old German "hoh mann" which is literally "tall man" (hoh is related to high)
Dicska@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 71d
'Nagy' (which is one syllable, and 'gy' means something like a voiced, wet 'd', like the mid section of your tongue against the roof of your mouth) is one of the most common Hungarian surnames. It means 'big'. I have never heard of (the equivalent of) 'Tall', but 'Long' exists.
paraplu@piefed.social · 3 pts · 71d
The 10th most common surname in the Netherlands is de Groot, which means the Big.
Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 71d
Tangentially related... nicknames for tall. I have always like "stretch". And of course calling a big man tiny is just great.
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 3 pts · 71d
"Mr. Big"
Mesophar@pawb.social · 2 pts · 71d
I had a teacher with the surname "Sizemore"
TwoTiredMice@feddit.dk · 2 pts · 71d
Høj (meaning tall) is a fairly common last name in Danmark.
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 70d
altphoto@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 70d
What about Fred Bigass?
executivechimp@discuss.tchncs.de · 1 pts · 71d
There is the occasional Wide or Large.
orenj@leminal.space · 1 pts · 71d
You must've not played many Final Fantasy's. Or watched a Star War.
HubertManne@piefed.social · 1 pts · 71d
I knew a guy with the last name of long.
MangoCats@feddit.it · 1 pts · 71d
Mr. Biggs would like a word, too.
Chewbaccabra@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 71d
Cel-Mare in Romania aka "the big one".
Apologies if mistranslated. I'm not Romanian but I work with a lot of em and one of them has that last name as well as a candy bar there.