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Example sentences for: surname

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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.
That seems to me to be a sensible approach, since the only way properly to investigate a surname is to go back through the male line as far as possible, noting the various spellings of the name, where the family was living in past centuries, and so on.
Surname interpretation mainly requires good philological skills, which Hanks and Hodges supply.
In Minnesota and Illinois, the first four characters of a person's driver's license number are the Soundex code of his surname.
While no author will be unhappy with a review that begins, “ The Surname Dictionary , in particular, becomes the best available work on the subject,” several points in Leslie Dunkling's remarks on A Dictionary of Surnames [XVII, 4:11] require comment.