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What are the odds that his name would be Bruce Landlord? He was born for this!

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To be fair, I’ve stored people in my contacts like this if I did not know their last name. Dan Bugguy, wherever you are, hope life’s been treating you well.

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That’s also the exact way surnames first appeared and evolved, as well. Which goes back a loooong way. Even the Romans with three names usually had one (the last) as a descriptor of sorts.

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Correct. The first “John Fletcher” would have actually been a fletcher. And then he may have named his son “Paul John’s son”, shortening to “Paul Johnson”.

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