"_M'_Cullogh"

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Sat Oct 16 00:18:24 UTC 2010


This abbreviation, _M'_, for Mac/Mc was official in the St. Louis
Post-Dispatch, even for a famous name like that of Gen. Douglas
_M'Arthur_, until the early 1960's
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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"––a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
–Mark Twain

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