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Such a woman literally has no name, but only two surnames, her husband's and that of her mother's family.

Johnson, which is a combination of the surnames of his father and his mother after she remarried.

This statement is to be entirely candid and, anonymous. I shall not identify either my husband or myself by our surnames .

He said that in many cases, people probably changed their surnames as they came to be regarded as in bad taste.

Before the Norman Conquest of Britain, people did not have hereditary surnames: they were known just by a personal name or nickname.

All graduates will be instructed to line up in alphabetical order of surnames and programmes studied.

Women retain their names after marriage, since Icelanders generally do not use surnames but patronyms or matronymic.

Surnames are generally considered to be a differentiating symbol to reveal the ties of blood in social constructions.

Icelanders (mostly) have no surnames, only given-names and patronymics, and use given patronymic for both sorting and display.

Hungarians put surnames first for all purposes, at least in the Hungarian language.

Miao clans were prohibited marriage with generally different surname marriages, some of the same surnames in different cases can marry.

Two Arsenal members recently won a fantastic day to remember, simply as a result of their surnames!

The new regulations will require that orphans be given surnames chosen from among the 100 most common Chinese family names.

Visit any military cemetery in the United States and count the Spanish surnames.

It comes from an Irish clan name, but it is also one of several English surnames derived from the personal name Nicolas.

"Yun" in ancient China one of the earliest surnames .

The giving of surnames for Christian names began in the time of king Edward VI.

The surnames and clan names are cultural symbols which represent the blood relationship in Chinese social structure.

Yet a suspiciously large number of top people have surnames beginning with letters between A and K.

My high school had only a tiny handful of classmates with Asian surnames or heritage.

Western Europeans and their cultural descendants put surnames last for display, first for sorting.

Heritable surnames are highly diverse cultural markers of coancestry in human populations.

Surnames carry some history in that they give an indication of our ethnic origins.

All the surnames in the list have been specially flagged so that the computer can print them out easily.

Blang people have no surnames; they have only personal names.

This list of surnames is arranged in the order of the number of strokes.

Chinese also put surnames first, and often retain this convention when mentioned in other languages.

Yes. I did just use both of our centre backs's surnames in an attempted witty wordplay. Sorry.

Y-chromosome STR loci on origin of Chinese populations and their surnames in different locality.

Du published a book on Chinese surnames, the genetic differences between people from North and South China and Chinese linguistics in 1992.

Even by keeping their surnames, these people are accepting their awful inheritance.

[A] People with surnames beginning with N to Z are often ill-treated.

When surnames were introduced they would often include a nickname - such as Robert Red (symbolic of his hair color).

Confusingly, Mr Holland calls the pilots by their first names, though they refer to each other in diaries and memoirs by their surnames.

The book also explains some technical terms and surnames when needed.

Chinese surnames come first; in contrast, English surnames come last.

Like many surnames, Louis Pasteur's probably once indicated a profession.

The author index has entries arranged in alphabetical order of author's surnames.

the classmate that Henan farming surnames gold greatly tells a reporter.

Second names or, surnames as we now call them, had come into being .

And it's better to respectfully address your superiors by their surnames to avoid getting fired.

After 1066, the Norman barons introduced surnames into England, and the practice gradually spread.

Some Chinese people have compound surnames , which come from the combination of two characters, such as Si Tu, Ou Yang, Nan Gong etc.

Dalian said that henceforth only common surnames would be used.

Anna? Wrap Lang, I some sons Be getting more careless. '100 surnames'top but have compound surname Anna of?

Other early surnames came from people's occupations.

According to a Chinese dictionary of surnames, during the Spring and Autumn period in China (476-770 BC), there was the Song Kingdom.

It is more important to be aware that both surnames and forenames are subject to variations in spelling, and not only in the distant past.

You guys are all my real brothers only with diffirent surnames.

May I suggest that you go in alphabetical order of surnames ?

By 1400 most English families, and those from Lowland Scotland, had adopted the use of hereditary surnames.

It has always Jiuxian households(Now the NvShanhu Towns), Zhou, Lu Fan of the three surnames.

Subsequently, zhang Mou is gentle and additional one name poplar surnames a staff member to call every day come over go canvassing .

If you work in a large company, it is more fitting that you call your subordinates by their surnames to show your status and education.

Most Icelandic surnames are based on patronymy, or the adoption of the father "s first given name. "

Asian neighbors such as China and South Korea also allow married women to have different surnames from their husbands'.

Students were forbidden to reveal their surnames to each other or the faculty.

The use of surnames rather than first names.

By some estimates, 100 surnames cover 85 percent of China's citizens.

Last week I increased the sample of surnames that I query from 100 to 1, 000.

In fact, there are only 7 surnames among its current residents.

Occasionally (in girls' schools for example) unadorned male-style surnames were used.

Yesterday, the number of users with the 1, 000 surnames jumped from 23, 922 (all counted by hand) to 24, 990, for an increase of 4. 47%.

Chars 1, learn the characters for surnames and do exs 4 and 5.

For example, the seemingly dissimilar surnames "Ng" and "Wu" used in America are both written in China with the same Chinese character.

Some people think that you could show respect for others by addressing them by their surnames rather than their first names

Diversification in Surnames in Associate with Relations between Nationalities in Chinese History

Population Genetics of Chinese Surnames I. Surname Frequency Distribution and Genetic Diversity in Chinese

A comparative study of Chinese and English surnames

Surnames offer depressing clues to the extent of social mobility over generations

Cultural Difference and Similarities Between China and Britain in the Origins of Surnames

Identification of surnames and forenames of foreigners in references

Semantic Orientations of English and Chinese Surnames

fourth, many nones honorific-indicated often added to surnames or names ;

Chinese Surnames, Group Heredity and Spread of Population

The Origins and Evolution of both Chinese surnames and Clan Names

The Original Chinese Surnames and Tele-Fertility Myths

Cultural Factors in Chinese and English Surnames and Names

on the middle tier, the matrilineal descent surnames;

The Current Patterns of Chinese Surnames

Surnames and Clans in the Dunhuang Documents

A Grand Dictionary of Chinese Surnames

Luoyang Plans to Build the Theme Park of Chinese Surnames

A Dictionary of English Surnames

Smith is one of the most common surnames in China

On Chinese and Russian Surnames

Thus the American president and vice-president have surnames starting with B and C respectively. (NETEM 2004, Text 2, Paragraph 3)

The Surnames in Hunan Province

Tau, Trachypenaeus, ichthyosis, and so on, snake and the tribes was a common combination of merger. 3 surnames culture;

On the Problem of Different Surnames of Husband and Wife in Japan