Hi, In response to my comments on the surname LENDZION, Bonnie Spamer <bspamer@earthlink.net> wrote: > Hi Mr. Hoffman: > > I really enjoy reading your responses to various > email. I'm very pleased to hear that! > I'm a gardener who grows annual sweetpeas. I > think I can explain how this > term for sweetpea could become the word for a > rogue or scoundral. The > lathyrus you mention is the perennial sweetpea. > This sweetpea is very > prolific, reseeds itself and grows all over. > It's difficult to eradicate. > That sounds like a rogue plant to me. Fascinating! This is the kind of insight that I wouldn't come up with in a million years. But it makes sense. When you consider the importance of plants and agriculture in the lives of Polish peasants, it's easy to believe they'd recognize the allusion. Calling someone by this nickname might be like saying he's a pest no one can get rid of. Thanks for posting this! I'm going to save your note so that if anyone asks about this name in the future, I can add what you told me. It's a good example of how lots of different people with different kinds of expertise can come together and explain something any one of them might be baffled by. Fred Hoffman

I have another input to the Lendzion surname. It may be referring to the West Medieval Polish Tribe of Lendians (in English) or Ledzianie (in Polish) Danuta ----- Original Message ----- From: "Fred Hoffman" <wmfhoffman@sbcglobal.net> To: "Bonnie Spamer" <bspamer@earthlink.net>; <polandbordersurnames@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, November 10, 2007 3:26 PM Subject: Re: [PBS] Lendzion > Hi, > > In response to my comments on the surname > LENDZION, Bonnie Spamer <bspamer@earthlink.net> > wrote: > >> Hi Mr. Hoffman: >> >> I really enjoy reading your responses to various >> email. > > I'm very pleased to hear that! > >> I'm a gardener who grows annual sweetpeas. I >> think I can explain how this >> term for sweetpea could become the word for a >> rogue or scoundral. The >> lathyrus you mention is the perennial sweetpea. >> This sweetpea is very >> prolific, reseeds itself and grows all over. >> It's difficult to eradicate. >> That sounds like a rogue plant to me. > > Fascinating! This is the kind of insight that I > wouldn't come up with in a million years. But it > makes sense. When you consider the importance of > plants and agriculture in the lives of Polish > peasants, it's easy to believe they'd recognize > the allusion. Calling someone by this nickname > might be like saying he's a pest no one can get > rid of. > > Thanks for posting this! I'm going to save your > note so that if anyone asks about this name in the > future, I can add what you told me. It's a good > example of how lots of different people with > different kinds of expertise can come together and > explain something any one of them might be baffled > by. > > Fred Hoffman > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > POLANDBORDERSURNAMES-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message