True Canadian class
When I die I’m going to Fred Penner’s Place.
As an American, I just want to give thanks to Canada for some of the best programming of my childhood.
Penner… a name that would make people in Germany Lauch… Lile Johnny Depp would be Johann Moron would Fred Penner be Frederik Bum.
Penner is a common Mennonite surname, and there are are a lot of Penners in Canada. Mennonite low German (Plautdietsch) is more weirder.
The wiki page has some good sample texts comparing it between Dutch and Low German.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plautdietsch
My surname (Unrau) is also Mennonite, but could be German.
This concludes my TED talk.
If I knew in grade school that Penner = Bum in German I would have been merciless to so many kids.
Interesting. I would have said Unrau is a german name. Meanings change over time. My Surname (Kraus) could be from either Upper Palatinate or Thuringia meaning “someone with curly hairs” or “maker/seller of jugs”. As a child I had a blond Afro with lots and lots of little curls. I guess that’s where my Familie name originates from. My grand father had hair like Albert Einstein.
I love this guy! I threw him a rose at the Regina Folk Festival in 2011 and he stuck in behind his ear and continued playing
My kids loved him when they were young.
