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Filialineal Naming Practices




Poster: "Ed Hopkins" <Ed.Hopkins@MCI.Com>

Caitlin Kindrasmom signed her posting thusly:

> =Caitlin Kindra'smom (this is the modern equivalent of somebody 
> somebody'sdottir)

I think that this was also done in the Period.  
Doesn't the surname Perlmutter (German or Yiddish for "Mother of
Pearl") date back that far?
How about the Greek surname Papadopolous?

-- Alfredo el Bufon

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