GraveyardSnoop, to random
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How many ways can you spell a surname? Today's candidate: Lamphere.

Lamphere
Lanphere
Lamphier
Lampheer
Lampher
Lamphers
Lamphear
Lanpher
Lanfear
Lampher

kofanchen, to academicchatter
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@academicchatter

I have been wondering what is the perception of having non-romanised names in the authorship of papers? I've seen Chinese/Taiwanese authors doing this with their names. Admittedly, I did this for my 🦣 handle. But visually using is much easier to differentiate two names when they looks similar in romanised forms:
Chen 陳 vs. Cheng 程

EdwardOvercoat, to random
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The Dictionary of Medieval Names from European Sources

A few minutes ago I learned of a marvellous project to create the Dictionary of Medieval Names from European Sources (DMNES). This is under development, although a lot now exists, but a blog is available, and is itself a rather wonderful thing:

The dictionary aims to contain all given (fore, Christian) names...

https://www.roger-pearse.com/weblog/2023/07/28/the-dictionary-of-medieval-names-from-european-sources/

#DMNES #Medieval Names

ClaireFromClare,
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@EdwardOvercoat What a huge & wonderful project!
& very deep rabbit hole 🕳️ 🐇
on the origins, spelling & popularity of names. Such interesting variations & influences!
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