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Random curiosity poll! Do you know any Finnish people? Defined here as people of Finnish lineage regardless of where they live, and people who live in Finland and consider it home, regardless of their lineage!
Boost to reduce bias of everyone answering knowing me at least, should it please you. 
@sinituulia my cousin married a Rekikoski, they met on Guernsey, and now have three Welsh/Finnish daughters. Tolkien would be so happy about this.
I get to write tri-lingual birthday cards, which makes *me* happy, äääähh!
@nic Love that you can even guess at the original region where the family came from, because "reki" usually refers to a reindeer or horse drawn sled. Not as south as you can manage, then!
A happy Tolkien indeed. Gosh heck those kids have had access to two "cool secret languages" to switch to if they wanted to plot in earshot of someone who only speaks English...
The trilingual birthday cards is also adorable. 
@sinituulia I’m not sure how much Finnish their dad has passed on to them, but his parents have very little English, so I hope he’s made the effort! My cousin doesn’t speak Welsh, but the girls are in school here, so will be learning Cymraeg.
@sinituulia My *other* cousin (this one’s sister) married a Cymro Cymraeg — a Welsh speaking Welshman, yes I know that should be redundant but here we are — and although he started with good intentions, and their two dauggters went to Welsh-medium nursery schools, they didn’t keep the language once they progressed to English-medium education, the most convenient local option.
Their eldest is now learning Welsh as an adult, and is a bit pissed off, let’s say.
@nic A little bit, I imagine! An effort should maybe have been made. 
I'm sure the kids are likely to learn at least a bunch of the swears in Finnish, if nothing else. You're generally hard pressed to not curse on accident, even when you try not to, and they're pretty snappy curses if not by meaning then sound!
@sinituulia I’ll have to ask them to teach me, now they’re getting a bit older!