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Example sentences for: surname

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Readers are there told that Howard represents “transferred use of the surname of an English noble family.”
The novel, the first by Chuck Palahniuk (the surname sounds like Eskimo for "palooka"--which somehow fits), walks a line between the straight and ironic--it isn't always clear if its glib sociological pronouncements are meant to be taken straight or as the ravings of a delusional mama's boy.
At my Victorian grandmama's knee I was taught that one uses the abbreviation "messrs" (plural of mister) only when addressing two men with the same surname residing at the same address--an admittedly Victorian situation.
Dzhugashvili selected the Russian word for steel, stal', as the root of his revolutionary name, the - in and -ov (-off, -ev) suffixes of Russian surnames being only surname indicators.
Surname was indeed an adaptation of French surnom , but the Normans called it that because in Latin it was a super nomen , an `extra name.