Did you name yourself after Eliane Hugentobler, of the famous Swiss ice dancing pair, Daniel & Eliane Hugentobler?
No, and although ice dancing is one of my favorite things on earth (my favorites are Marina Anissina and Gwendal Peizerat), I had not heard of the Swiss pair until I was reviewing my site statistics on Geocities and found that someone had gotten to my webpage by searching on the name ‘Eliane Hugentobler’. Now that I actually mention their name in my Blog, I will probably get hundreds more hits from people searching Google for their names. Sorry folks, there’s no information about the Hugentoblers here. What about your last name, Halevy? Pronounced ha-LAY-vee (not hayle-vee, ha-leave-ee, Halsey, Malmsey, Hershey, or any of the other ways people have mangled it). I found that in Dauzat too. To Jewish folks it’s obvious that it’s a Hebrew family name designating my family as Levites (members of a particular lineage in Judaism). My family are not Levites, but Eliane’s could very well have been, and in France, they would have pronounced their name ha-LAY-vee.
