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От : Ardith Hinton 1:153/716 12 окт 24 16:20:40
К : Alexander Koryagin 12 окт 24 02:44:01
Тема : Strange a bit
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Hi, Alexander! Recently you wrote in a message to Ardith Hinton:
AK> I asked about the second name.
AH> Oh, I see. I`d describe the initials here as representing a
AH> person`s given names and "Milne" as a surname or family name.
AH> I understand these things work a bit differently WRT Russian
AH> names... and to complicate matters, a person`s given name may
AH> also be the mother`s maiden name and/or another individual`s
AH> surname where I come from.
AK> Is it correct that a second name is always equal to a surname
AK> or family name?
Not always. If another man introduced himself to you as "Alan
Milne" his surname/family name would be the second of two names & for
everyday purposes this works most of the time. But a lot of folks have one
or more "middle names" they rarely use. In this case we know the
man`s middle name or use his initials
... but then we have three items in the series. If he wasn`t an
author he might not have disclosed this information & we wouldn`t have to
redo the math.... :-)
AK> How would you write it "Milne" or "Miln" if you never saw
AK> it written.
AH> Well, it does rhyme with "kiln"... so if I`d never seen or
AH> heard this name before I might employ the latter until I had
AH> time to investigate further.
AK> It remains to me only to wonder about the English language
AK> evolution. How on earth you put a letter into the word and
AK> don`t pronounce this letter. ;)
In some cases at least a word has been adopted from a
Scandinavian or northern European language & we`ve trimmed a few inflections etc.
:-))
AK> Maybe Milne was spoken differently in the past?
Quite possibly. There are many different dialects in the UK, and
for us it`s not easy to be sure how or when the pronunciation may
have changed. One must also realize that before the advent of the
printing press spellings weren`t standardized the way they are now. I`ve
heard Shakespeare didn`t always use the same spelling of his own name...
and other names often have variations too. :-)
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