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To: Slings and Arrows
I think I read that Iceland doesn’t have Family last names just Whatever-son if it is a boy and something else if it was a girl. If that is correct it would add to the difficulty
23 posted on 02/11/2012 10:35:38 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (Would you sing if someone sucked YOU up the vacuum cleaner hose?)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

I’ve heard that too. Probably a lot of folks named with the local equivalent of “John Johnson.”


25 posted on 02/11/2012 10:38:41 PM PST by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

Knew some Eritrean people. The kids take the dad’s first name as their last name.


39 posted on 02/12/2012 12:21:51 AM PST by beaversmom
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