From: me@yahoo.com
On 2024-05-31 21:06:53 +0000, Aidan Kehoe said:
> Ar an t-aonú lá is triochad de mí Bealtaine, scríobh Athel
Cornish-Bowden:
>
> > 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.
>
> Ian Fleming was also British, not from Flanders.
>
> Ian Paisley was (and Ian Óg Paisley is) not from Paisley.
>
> George C. Scott was from West Virginia, not Scotland.
>
> Neither the actor James Franco nor the deceased caudillo of Spain have any
> immediate family background in Franconia, nor even France.
>
> Percy French, Irish songwriter, was not French by nationality.
>
> Counterexample; Charles de Gaulle was French, but his name was Dutch.
>
> Complication; Chester Nimitz was of recent German descent, but had US
> nationality; his family name is of Slavic origin but designates a German.
>
> I’m sure I could (and we could) keep going with these!
As a possible counterexample, what about Deutsch and Deutscher, which
seem to be reasonably common surnames in Germany?
--
Athel -- French and British, living in Marseilles for 37 years; mainly
in England until 1987.
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