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To: hellbender

Yep. See #34...just finished posting. What a coincidence, lol


35 posted on 12/18/2007 12:45:18 PM PST by G8 Diplomat (Creatures are divided into 6 kingdoms: Animalia, Plantae, Fungi, Monera, Protista, & Saudi Arabia)
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To: G8 Diplomat

Besides all those primitive blood-line clan names, it’s struck me that many English (and other Euro) surnames are vocational; they denote an occupation or craft: Cook, Clark (clerk), Miller, Smith, Wright (Wheelwright, Wainwright, Cartwright, etc.), Carpenter, Fuller, Weaver. I think this is evidence of settled, civilized society with lawful market exchanges of services, over a period of many centuries. I doubt there is anything like that in Arab or other nomadic-tribal-brigand cultures.


37 posted on 12/18/2007 1:46:15 PM PST by hellbender
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