2007-06-07

sff_corgi_lj: (Medieval - Heraldry)
2007-06-07 08:54 am
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What a fabulous name!



From a press release about the Miami PD's 'Operation Difference':
...Crime Suppression Unit’s Captain Milady Irizarry...
Irizarry's a distinctively Basque name, btw. From one source of unproven value:
'Respelling of Basque Irizarri, a variant of the Basque surname Irizar meaning ‘ancient village’, from iri ‘village’ + zar ‘old’, or a habitational name from a town called Irisarri in Nafarroa Beherea province, Basque Country.