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He looks very polite(lemmy.world)

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Kyrgizion@lemmy.world
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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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