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Niels Grotum
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Pronounced with the umpty.

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Wait long enough and continental drift will bring the ball to him.
November 19, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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A fine remains a price.
November 18, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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Further citation, since I was curious! (Seems like the researcher elaborated in press interviews) archive.org/details/chri...
From "Christian Names in Local and Family History," by George Redmonds: Difficult Latin forms Not all the Latin forms of men's names ended in -us. John and Andrew were 'Johannes' and 'Andreas' whilst Adam and Thomas were unchanged but had the genitive forms 'Ade' and 'Thome'. Unfortunately there are some Latin spellings which bear little resemblance to the English names and these have to be learnt. 'Radulfus' for Ralph is difficult enough but it is even further from the medieval name which was written Rawfe and could be pronounced 'Raw', the 'f' silent. This was responsible for the surnames Rawes and Rawson and the popular diminutive Rawlin gave rise to Rawlinson. There could be problems too with Denis, James, Geoffrey and Giles, usually recorded as 'Dionisius', Jacobus', 'Galfridus' and 'Egidius'. Giles is not thought of now as a female name so the occasional 'Egidia' reminds us how useful the Latin inflection can be. 'Dionisius' and 'Dionisia', our modern Denis and Denise, were almost equally popular in the fourteenth century and either of them might have given rise to the surnames Denison and Dennison. However, it was Dionisia of Linthwaite who was responsible for Dyson, via the short form 'Di', and this, together with frequent late spellings such as 'Dionis', points to possible alternative pronunciations. The diminutive Diot produced the unfortunate combination Diot Coke in 1379.
November 13, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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Those pictures say more than a 1000 words, but the words are just repeatedly yelling SHUTTERSTOCK drowning out everything.
November 11, 2025 at 4:31 PM