A Rose by any other Name......

Submitted by Pied Piper (Saudi Arabia), Feb 5, 2017 at 12:27

Yes - SARSOUR in Arabic means "cockroach" and as any Spanish speaker will know, LINDA means "beautiful" so our culprit's full name can be rendered in English as "The Beautiful Cockroach".

At another level, it's interesting to note that SARSOUR could very easily come from the original Arabic verb SARSARA which means "to let out a piercing cry (or) to scream shrilly". No getting away from it....whichever way you cut it, the result is not a pretty picture.

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