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#1 2018-03-31 11:36:57

David Bird
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From: The Hammer, Ontario
Registered: 2009-07-28
Posts: 1690

The Rockerfellows

“The Rockerfellows (sic) are against me.” (Delusion of grandiosity.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_R … Injunction

SHRIMP ROCKERFELLOW
http://www.cooks.com/recipe/315365vj/sh … ellow.html

rockerfellow center nyc 1930s
https://www.pinterest.ca/pin/559783428662798222/

Catch up with Alabama’s Wild Seafood Oysters
grilled, fried, stewed, nude or dressed up like a Rockerfellow…
https://www.eatalabamawildseafood.com/oysters.html

If you want a really unique delicious recipe then you need to check out this simple but oh so delicious recipe for Oysters Rockerfellow.
http://beforeitsnews.com/cooking-and-re … 67626.html

I went to New York and had the holiday of my life, we went to every high place I could find Empire State, High Line , Rockerfellow.
https://www.movea-head.com/testimonials/

He was awarded a Rockerfellow Travelling Fellowship to tour the United States of America.
https://www.gauteng.net/blog/south_afri … bais_dies/

One of them said “Who is this guy, Judson, I wonder.” Another replied, “I suppose he is a big guy with lots of money, like Rockerfellow, and they thought they would get some of it by naming their camp for him.”
http://www.rcfbc.org/welcome/history

To paraphrase David Rockerfellow who said he didn’t care who was in power politically as long as his bank controlled the money.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/101701 … omists-say

I don’t know the Rockefellers, so I couldn’t say whether they are rockers, or jolly good fellow tycoons. Their characterization as rocker fellows suggests all kinds of back and forth interpretations in the non-rhotic imagination. I wouldn’t really hazard a guess as to where “Rockerfellow” might fall on the Lehmann spectrum, or even if it belongs there at all.

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#2 2018-04-04 16:06:59

kem
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From: Victoria, BC
Registered: 2007-08-28
Posts: 2851

Re: The Rockerfellows

Rockefellers in the US get their surname from the Rhineland-Palatinate immigrants (the so-called Pennsylvania Dutch) who came to the American colonies in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Their German surname was Anglicized in several ways – Rockafellow, Rockerfeller, and every variant in between. I’ve got a few Rockefellows in my own ancestral tree, which is rather heavy on the German side (though, oddly, not “Luther”—that side of me is English and Irish).

Sometimes the Pennsylvania Dutch surnames were translated (my “Metzgers” became “Butchers”), but most often the German words were turned into their nearest English sound equivalents, which is mostly what happened to “Rockefeller.” It is based on a German surname referring to a rye (“rocke/rogge”) field (“feld”).

If the speakers really are trying to bring the modern “rocker” and “fellow” into the word, that would make it an Aunty Lehman.


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