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Why was it odd to be a surname? Maybe I'm wrong, but when translated it's more probable to be a surname than anything else.
by nocturnial 6y ago
Why was it odd to be a surname?
Maybe I'm wrong, but when translated it's more probable to be a surname than anything else.
- adrianmonk 6y agoOne thing that threw me off is that sometimes people artificially construct names or modified forms of names. For example, "k8e" is an alternative form of "Katie". Not being familiar with this surname, the first thing I noticed was that "ten" and "ever" are both English words. So I tried reading it as "ten oh ever" or "ten zero ever". I couldn't understand what that would mean, but it was the best interpretation I could think of. In my experience, smart people are more likely to be idiosyncratic, so I wasn't inclined to dismiss the possibility. I tried putting "tenOever" into Google, but the first two pages of results just take me back to him and his research. I tried Wikipedia too and search results there were also dominated by his work. It wasn't until I came to the comments here that I was able to find the real answer.