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Laura Ljungkvist |
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Laura Ljungkvist: Hello. My name is Laura Ljungkvist. And Ljungkvist is a fairly common Swedish last name. It's a tricky thing, because the L on the beginning of my name is mute, so it's a J sound. Jungvist. I've gotten many funny misspellings on by name throughout the years. Ljungkvist means branch of heather. Ljung heather and kvist, branch. The funniest misspelling I ever got was Tungkmust. Tung means heavy in Swedish, and kmust means broom, so I went from branch of heather to heavy broom. And that, I thought, was very, very funny.
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