From: rh@rudhar.com   
      
   Fri, 31 May 2024 16:55:18 +0200: Athel Cornish-Bowden    
   scribeva:   
      
   >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.   
      
   Yes. And Friedrich Engels wasn't English (in Dutch: Engels), but   
   German.   
   https://rudhar.com/lingtics/hollande.htm   
   Frans Duijts is a Dutch singer who has two language names in his name:   
   French and German, in Dutch: Frans and Duits (the Duijts in his name   
   can be interpreted as an older spelling variant).   
      
   Meanwhile, Luís Montenegro has become the prime-minister of Portugal.   
   As I wrote somewhere, it would be nice if someone with the surname   
   Portugal could become prime minister of Montenegro (Crna Gora).   
      
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