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Yeah, my name seems to be pretty popular all over the Commonwealth...most common in the UK, then the Antipodes then the US...strange that there are even a few in India and Japan(?!)...makes me wonder what my dad was up to when he was in the Merchant Navy...
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Speaking of Erith:
"It's not twinned with anywhere, but it does have a suicide pact with Dagenham" - Linda Smith -
As expected, south-east Ireland burns blue with my surname but its relatively rare elsewhere.Exult in your existence, because that very process has blundered unwittingly on its own negation. Only a small, local negation, to be sure: only one species, and only a minority of that species; but there lies hope. [...] Stand tall, Bipedal Ape. The shark may outswim you, the cheetah outrun you, the swift outfly you, the capuchin outclimb you, the elephant outpower you, the redwood outlast you. But you have the biggest gifts of all: the gift of understanding the ruthlessly cruel process that gave us all existence [and the] gift of revulsion against its implications.
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Using the original spelling...
Top Countries/FPM
POLAND -- 18.59
GERMANY -- 10.83
NORWAY -- 1.98
UNITED STATES -- 1.17
CANADA -- 0.46
As spelled by my family, it's US only, at 0.38 FPM. (My grandfather was a local politician who "Americanized" his surname by adding a letter. This was around WW2, and German-Polish names were not in vogue in US politics. He was 4-term mayor of the town where my parents were born.)Apolyton's Grim Reaper 2008, 2010 & 2011
RIP lest we forget... SG (2) and LaFayette -- Civ2 Succession Games Brothers-in-ArmsComment
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