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From: Athel Cornish-Bowden <me@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: Maya Angelou died (28-5-2014)
Date: Sat, 1 Jun 2024 10:13:04 +0200
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On 2024-05-31 21:06:53 +0000, Aidan Kehoe said:

>  Ar an t-aonú lá is triochad de mí Bealtaine, scríobh Athel Cornish-Bowden:
> 
>  > 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.
> 
> Ian Fleming was also British, not from Flanders.
> 
> Ian Paisley was (and Ian Óg Paisley is) not from Paisley.
> 
> George C. Scott was from West Virginia, not Scotland.
> 
> Neither the actor James Franco nor the deceased caudillo of Spain have any
> immediate family background in Franconia, nor even France.
> 
> Percy French, Irish songwriter, was not French by nationality.
> 
> Counterexample; Charles de Gaulle was French, but his name was Dutch.
> 
> Complication; Chester Nimitz was of recent German descent, but had US
> nationality; his family name is of Slavic origin but designates a German.
> 
> I’m sure I could (and we could) keep going with these!

As a possible counterexample, what about Deutsch and Deutscher, which 
seem to be reasonably common surnames in Germany?


-- 
Athel -- French and British, living in Marseilles for 37 years; mainly 
in England until 1987.