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To: Toby Zidle who wrote (868)	9/28/2002 6:51:18 PM
From: E. Charters	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1003

Hey, you are making me cry! sniffle sniffle sniffle. Cut that out! Damn. Poor Ahmed. He must have been some dumbass though to figure they would miss his name. But he loved his ma so much he could not be ruled by reason! Ah, well. (sigh) There is one other place where they do not actually have last names and that is India. I know a lot of people figure that Indian people they know have two names as in a family name and given name, but actually they only have one. Ask one and he will tell you. They print two names only as a western convention. Indians are mononomic. Ravi Shankar did not actually have a father called Shankar etc.. I don't know when we started with two names in Europe. Prior to and well into the middle ages, people were known as John of Shropshire and the like in the Domesday Book. Celtics were patrynomically named by O' and Mc and Mac of their father or mother until the clan names settled in as family names. This went as if your father's name was Bill, and your name was Bob, you would be Bob O'Bill. By 1500 last names and Christian names were the rule. They may have been standardized by the Norman invasion. EC<:-}