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Fri, 31 May 2024 16:55:18 +0200: Athel Cornish-Bowden <me@yahoo.com>
scribeva:

>On 2024-05-31 07:50:03 +0000, Athel Cornish-Bowden said:
>
>> On 2024-05-30 18:47:03 +0000, Christian Weisgerber said:
>> 
>>> On 2024-05-30, Athel Cornish-Bowden <me@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>>> No. "Cornish" is not a Cornish name: what would be the point of callig
>>>>> someone Cornish if everyone around is Cornish. The name is much more
>>>>> common in Devon, just as "Devenish" is more common in Somerset than it
>>>>> is in Devon.
>>>> 
>>>> I used to know María Teresa Miras Portugal (until she died): she was
>>>> Spanish, not Portuguese.
>>> 
>>> Actress Cécile de France is Belgian.
>> 
>> Indeed. I didn't think of her, but I knew she was Belgian.
>
>An even more prominent example is François Hollande: he is not Dutch, 
>but is French.

Yes. And Friedrich Engels wasn't English (in Dutch: Engels), but
German.
https://rudhar.com/lingtics/hollande.htm
Frans Duijts is a Dutch singer who has two language names in his name:
French and German, in Dutch: Frans and Duits (the Duijts in his name
can be interpreted as an older spelling variant).

Meanwhile, Luís Montenegro has become the prime-minister of Portugal.
As I wrote somewhere, it would be nice if someone with the surname
Portugal could become prime minister of Montenegro (Crna Gora).

-- 
Ruud Harmsen, https://rudhar.com