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|    Lee Ayrton to Denise Angeloni    |
|    Re: Quin vs Quinn    |
|    02 Dec 22 13:01:08    |
      From: layrton@panix.com              On 11/24/2022 15:17 PM, Denise Angeloni wrote:       > On Thursday, 2 June 2016 at 02:58:17 UTC-4, RH Draney wrote:       >> On 6/1/2016 10:04 PM, superme...@gmail.com wrote:       >>> On Friday, February 2, 1996 at 6:30:00 PM UTC+10:30, Denise Angeloni wrote:       >>>> Hello!       >>>>       >>>> I have a friend whose last name is Quinn. She told       >>>> me that the people who share her last name, spelled       >>>> with two "n"s, tend to be Roman Catholic, or of R.C.       >>>> background. Meanwhile those who spell it with only       >>>> one "n" tend to be of protestant faith.       >>>>       >>>> She also said that this is what she had always heard,       >>>> but wasn't sure if it was true. All the Quinns she       >>>> knows happen to be of R.C. background, but she doesn't       >>>> know any Quins.       >>>>       >>>> I was wondering if there was anyone out there who knows       >>>> whether this is true or not, or if there are any       >>>> Quin(n)s out there who can enlighten me further.       >>>>       >>>> Thank you in advance,       >>>>       >>>>       >>>> Denise Angeloni.       >>>>       >>>>       >>>> P.S. You can e-mail me or post, I have no preference.       >>>       >>> That's what I've always heard about the Quin(n) name. My fathers side is       Catholic.       >> Denise's "thank you in advance" turned out to be twenty years in       >> advance...if that's not a record, it's certainly a valiant attempt....       >>       >> Some of the Quinns I know spell it Nguyen....r       >       > And 8 years later, I decided to check... so nearly 30 years in advance :)              Ed Rice will be along in a decade or two to follow up.                     Lee "Chrono-Synclastic Infundibulum, or fruit flies like a banana" Ayrton              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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