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   On 2024-05-31 07:50:03 +0000, Athel Cornish-Bowden said:   
      
   > On 2024-05-30 18:47:03 +0000, Christian Weisgerber said:   
   >   
   >> On 2024-05-30, Athel Cornish-Bowden  wrote:   
   >>   
   >>>> No. "Cornish" is not a Cornish name: what would be the point of callig   
   >>>> someone Cornish if everyone around is Cornish. The name is much more   
   >>>> common in Devon, just as "Devenish" is more common in Somerset than it   
   >>>> is in Devon.   
   >>>   
   >>> I used to know María Teresa Miras Portugal (until she died): she was   
   >>> Spanish, not Portuguese.   
   >>   
   >> Actress Cécile de France is Belgian.   
   >   
   > Indeed. I didn't think of her, but I knew she was Belgian.   
      
   An even more prominent example is François Hollande: he is not Dutch,   
   but is French.   
      
      
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   Athel -- French and British, living in Marseilles for 37 years; mainly   
   in England until 1987.   
      
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