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About the Name "GEN DOBRY!"
For those of you who don't recognize it, "Gen Dobry!" is a play on
words, based on the Polish greeting "Dzien dobry." That expression,
pronounced roughly "jen do-bree" and meaning "Good day," is a standard
way of saying "Hello." So "Gen dobry!" is sort of a shameless cross
lingual pun, as if to say "Good gen[ealogy]!" Of course, some spoilsport
will point out that "gen" as short for "genealogy" might be pronounced
with a hard "g," as in "go," rather than the soft "g" in "genealogy" -
in which case the pun fails. To anyone who raises that point, all I can
say is, lighten up - you'll live longer. Those ancestors you're
researching aren't THAT anxious to see you!
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