Proper names with apostrophes?

[Laurence Horn]

On Jan 2, 2012, at 6:11 PM, Neal Whitman wrote:

> If we're not limited to possessive apostrophes, there are plenty of names with decorative ones, like De'Andre.
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> Neal

Or De'Anthony (Thomas), who ran for a 90+ yard touchdown in tonight's Rose Bowl game, holding on to both the ball and the decorative apostrophe.

LH
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> On Jan 2, 2012, at 5:18 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU> wrote:
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>> I don't know how common this is.  But there's a basketball player for =
>> St. John's University (NYC) named God'sgift Achiuwa (as he appears in =
>> box scores) or God's Gift Achiuwa (as he appears on the web, e.g. in =
>> http://sports.espn.go.com/new-york/ncb/columns/story?columnist=3Ddarcy_kie=
>> ran&id=3D6480215).  No doubt not the only Christian (I assume) name with =
>> an apostrophe in it but I can't think of others I've encountered.   =
>> (Maybe it's something about the Big East Conference; a basketball player =
>> for rival Providence College a few years ago was named God Shammgod.  =
>> Too bad he never got the chance to go man-on-man against God'sgift.)  =20=
>>
>>
>> LH
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