Corrections

1. It's not "Georvasilis." It's "Georvassilis." A mystery reader (probably Gregg Welch from L.A.) pointed this out.

2. The car I'm driving is seventeen years old, not seven years old. That's okay. It's still a little spring chicken in my book.

Comments

[Nikos Georvasilis]

Well actually it's neither, both Georvasilis and Georvassilis are incorrect.

GeorvaSSilis (with the double S)is wrong because the name Vasilis in Greek is spelled with one S after the first A. So this is definately not the way to go.

However, even Georvasilis (with one S) is grammatically incorrect in the Greek language. The combination of the R followed by the V is not at all correct. Come to Greece and any Greek will tell you that.

It is mostly likely that our name Georvasilis was originally GeRovasilis (the R and the O switched) with a literal meaning of "old man Vasilis" = old man Bill.