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Italians are not the only ones to live with the burden of insulting surnames, of course.
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.
The use of surnames as given names is worthy of note.
But outside Venice, Italians did not begin to adopt hereditary surnames until the 14th and 15th centuries, a bit later than most of the rest of Europe, according to Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges, authors of the addictive A Dictionary of Surnames (Oxford University Press, 1988).
Add to this those perverse types who voluntarily renounce such fine family designations as Cupissol `Arsepiss' and the result, according to an anguished M. Tesnières, is that 70 out of every 100 current surnames disappear in the course of a single generation.