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  1. Went to ship a package the other day and the guy in the Post Office insisted on trying to pronounce my name. He did pretty great, considering the surprising twists I've heard. Said he takes pride in guessing people's pronounciations, told him he surprised me with his near-perfect guess.
    #extra #consonants #mispronounce #pronounciation #surname #given #name #chosen #spelling #uncle #namesake #junior #third #fourth #inherit #moniker #Russian #grandparents #USA #immigrants #power the #UnitedStates

  2. CW: Names, sports

    The best thing about Keely Hodgkinson running in the Paris Olympics is that more people will learn how to spell and pronounce our surname.

    #TeamGB #TeamHodgkinson #KeelyHodgkinson #Hodgkinson #FamilyName #Surname #Pronunciation #SpellingNames #ParisOlympics #2024Olympics

  3. QRT #JWHIA babka.social/@jewwhohasitall/1

    Going back a bit to a recent #schoolLetter, #DearPrincipal this time. Some #names, a #holiday, a #song, and #woke.

    Let's go!

    #Berkowitz (also #Berkowicz, #Berkovich, etc) /ˈberkɔvɪt͡s (Yiddish), ˈbɝkəwɪts (English) = Ashkenazi Jewish #surname literally meaning “son of little bear.” Borrowed into English from Yiddish. Derived from the Yiddish #given #name #Berke...

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  4. Here I am again back in Boston where I started my search for the Tilney family.

    The summer took me to two villages on either side of the Humber in search of this lady’s maternal ancestry. It is possible that this is Margaret the wife of Frederick Tilney.

    Margaret and Frederick had at least one son, whose descendants would go on to greater things (depending on your point of view that is) in the mid-16th century.

    Margaret’s effigy once lay in the church of St John’s in Skirbeck. It is this area, which predates Boston itself, that I find myself this weekend.

    #lincolnshire #boston #stbotolphs #bostonstump #tower #stjohns #skirbeck #church #tomb #effigy #medieval #architecture #surname #tilney #rochford #family #familyhistory #lincolnshirefamilyhistory

  5. #Margaret /'margrɪt or 'margərɪt (US English) = female #given #name meaning "pearl"; attested in English at least since the 1000s.

    #Margalit (also #Margalith, #Marganit) /marga'lit (Hebrew), 'margəlit (English)/ = 1. female #given #name meaning "gem, pearl" ➡️​ 2. a Jewish #matronymic ➡️​ #paternal #surname attested at least as early as the late 1400s.

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  6. #Sandler (also #Sandlar) /ˈsændlɚ (English)/ = Jewish #surname, borrowed into English from Yiddish and Hebrew, with 2 etymologies: 1. borrowed into Hebrew from Latin SANDLARIUS (= sandal/shoe-maker), maintains that meaning in Hebrew, and has other variants e.g. #Sandel and #Sandelmann. 2. borrowed into Hebrew from a diminutuve of the Greek #given #name Alexander (= helper of men); Jews have used Greek names since at least the destruction of the Second Temple 2000+ years ago.

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  7. #Roth /rɑθ (English, from German and Gaelic) = a #surname common among Jews, adopted from local gentile surnames. 1. From Scots and Scottish English (from Scottish Gaelic, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European), "wheel"; 2. from German, etymologically murky; possibly from a word meaning "red," "wood," "king," "bloodshed from war," or "fame." Variations of the name include #Rothschild, #Reitman, #Rothwell, #Rottbaum, etc

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