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protomyth on Aug 29, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Life on the Internet Is Hard When Your Last Name I...

I wish that was a list like that could be added to because I would add:

41. Full adjectives and adverbs can appear in names. Some folks didn't get fancy and add prefixes and suffixes like the Europeans. You might even encounter a family name that is a whole phrase.

philwelch on Aug 29, 2018 [–]

Puritan names actually followed this pattern, with names like “If-Christ-had- not-died-for-thee-thou-hadst- been-damned”.

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