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10 December 2009

What's in a name? £1000, apparently.

If Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes had known that Suri meant pick-pocket in Japanese would they have chosen the name for their first born? London-based translation firm Today Translations is offering expecting parents the opportunity to check the meaning of potential baby names in other languages to avoid future embarrassment.

Unfortunately it doesn't stop out-and-out embarrassing names like Peaches, Apple, or Fifi Trixabelle, which transcend language in their ability to humiliate.

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