Why Craving Frozen Water May Indicate Anemia. Munching on ice is a soothing way to refresh your mouth and help hydrate your body with the water it needs. However, if you've noticed yourself habitually chewing ice, or craving it throughout the day, this odd hankering many indicate a more serious issue.
Polish Grandfather: Dziadek, Dziadziu, Dzidzi, Jaja, Dziadzi, etc. Polish can be confusing sometimes. It seems there are 15 different ways to say one word. Well, actually, not really. I'm going to discuss certain words in the Polish language which seem to fall in that 15 different ways to not say it catagory.
Illustrious names such as Baranowski proudly evoke images of the historic Eastern European homeland of the Polish people. Although the most common form of a hereditary surname in Poland is the patronymic surname, which is derived from the name of the father, there are also local surnames. Local surnames usually came from a fairly universal and long-standing tradition of noting where a person came from.