Lois’s answer to “I've notived you have characters with Finnish names popping up in your various books, Captain Tuomo…” > Likes and Comments
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Did you get to the zoo in Helsinki? It's on an island so you have to take a boat
Oh, I have only listened to this as an audiobook and parsed it as an Asian/Chinese name (as well as Ekaterine's late husband, but as I google it I realize Etienne's name is probably of French origin.). The audio pronounciation didn't put me in the Finnish direction. (Not Finnish, not speaking Finnish. Just Swedish.)
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Did you get to the zoo in Helsinki? It's on an island so you have to take a boat
Oh, I have only listened to this as an audiobook and parsed it as an Asian/Chinese name (as well as Ekaterine's late husband, but as I google it I realize Etienne's name is probably of French origin.). The audio pronounciation didn't put me in the Finnish direction. (Not Finnish, not speaking Finnish. Just Swedish.)
But Capt. Tuomonen et al. appeared much earlier already. Also, the island kingdom of Arfrastpekka in The Hallowed Hunt felt somehow Finnish, at least the -pekka part, as Pekka is a common Finnish surname. As a Finn, it is always nice to find such little tidbits. :)