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Being asked to make a judgment about a surname merely on the basis of its modern spelling is rather like being asked to give the meaning of a word such as pain without being told whether the word is English or French and without knowing whether the word should really be spelled pane .
So to examine cultural bias in a wider sense, I checked the surname Lambert, happily borne by Anglophones as well as Francophones.
It is absurd to suggest that Howard has been used in modern times because it is the surname of an aristocratic British family.
The authors' respective treatment of Howard as a surname and Howard as a first name is perhaps symbolic of the different qualities of these two dictionaries.
Not so in France, where names are part of the patrimoine , the national heritage, and are not to be altered or forsaken lightly: a poet friend had to spend several years and a lot of money to get a missing s restored to the official version of his surname, so that now, instead of being B\acap\tard `mongrel' he's plain old Bastard and, what's more, is very happy about it.