LL-L "Names" 2009.08.19 (03) [EN]

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From: LUCAS ANNEAR <annear at wisc.edu>
Subject: LL-L "Names" 2009.08.19 (01) [EN]

Ron,

I work in an office (in Wisconsin) where I see a couple of hundred last
names an a slow day, a thousand or more on some days.  Looking in our
database, we have over 200 people with the last name of Hahn.  I do see Hahn
quite often!

Lucas Annear
Madison, Wisconsin, USA

>  she says "f*a*ther" and "Belf*a*st" with this phonetic value, so it is
>  indeed her equivalent of [A:].
>
>  People in Germany? Really???
>
>  Well, I might have to take this back when I consider German
>  speakers' assumption that the name means "rooster" (though this is
> not its
>  etymology) and you get the occasional "joke" about it.
>
>  Is it "überhaupt" legally possible to change a surname in the U.S.?
> Here in
>  Belgium it is, but it does cost you some money.
>
>  Yes, it is, and it's pretty easy. Also, you can change it to pretty much
>  anything. Yes, there's a process, and it involves a fee. However, I could
>  have done it for "free" when I became a US citizen (which I didn't
consider
>  because my original name is registered in two other countries).
>
>  Regards,
>  Reinhard/Ron
>  Seattle,

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From: R. F. Hahn <sassisch at yahoo.com>
Subject: Names

Thanks loads, Luke. That figures, especially in Wisconsin with its
particularly high percentage of people of German background.

Add to this all the people called Haan, de Haan and so forth, mostly people
with roots mostly in the Netherlands, some of them in Belgium and Germany.

A couple of weekends ago I bought some clothes in a department store. As I
handed the cashier my card he said he was ready to charge it to "the party".
"What party?" "The Hahn party." "I don't know about that." "Oh, I thought
you were with those folks there." It turned out that the couple was ordering
clothes for a wedding under the name Hahn.

I chatted with them. The paternal side of t he gentleman was from central
Lower Saxony and arrived in the US three generations ago.

There must be a nest somewhere ...

Regards,
Reinhard/Ron
Seattle, USA

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