John Dalmas wrote:

>Bob Kasenchak writes of a book translating composers' names into English,
>and mentions Bedrich Smetana meaning literally Fred Sourcream.
>
>The Czech word "smetana" means simply cream.  Sour cream in Czech would be
>"kysela smetana," or more usually "kysely krem." ...

Try Russian.  In Russian, "smetana" means sour cream.  Simple cream is
"slivki".

Walter Meyer