|
|
|
|
|||||
|
||||||
Subject: sensitive about this
From: Yourname Here (ffive@XXX.XXX)
Date: Mon Dec 03 2001 - 00:31:03 EST
I doubt that your parrents actually named you Your Name Here.
They did, actually. 'Your' is an ancient and almost honourable surname
dating back to a remote and little known clan (band of thieves, in fact)
that, for reasons lost in obscurity, always presents the surname first,
as do the Chinese.
Possibly my parrents yielded to a moment of whimsy in then choosing
'Name' as a first name although 'Here' may be traced back to a long
lived ancestor - it was more a nick-name, really.
Its difficult to be categoric about these things. I knew a chap named
Stan Moore. Fair enough, except when his first and (presumably) much
loved son was born they (there was also a woman involved) named him Hugh
Moore. I kid you not, and neither did they - as far as I could tell they
had no sense of humour at all.
Thanks for the info about 360 degrees, to you and all contributors.
Fascinating stuff.
And for Brian Whatcott, a site you may find useful is
http://members.ozemail.com.au/~jjjacq/sundry/navcel.html
|