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To: Moonman62
Well von is "of" and Haus is "house" but Not means "need."

Nusshaus would literally translate as "nuthouse."

99 posted on 11/15/2007 8:25:45 AM PST by wideawake (Why is it that so many self-proclaimed "Constitutionalists" know so little about the Constitution?)
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To: wideawake

His grandparents probably changed it from nuss to not when they went through Ellis island.


114 posted on 11/15/2007 8:29:50 AM PST by Moonman62 (The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
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