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Does anyone else find it strange that Van is actually a middle name, thus rendering his name as HALEN EDWARD VAN
by ghostpepper 6y ago
Does anyone else find it strange that Van is actually a middle name, thus rendering his name as HALEN EDWARD VAN
- guidedlight 6y ago“Van” is part of the surname. It means “of” or “from” in Dutch. It’s similar to “De” prefixed to Spanish surnames.
- ThePadawan 6y agoYes, but the patent application lists his name as "Halen Edward L Van". So apparently this was misfiled (under the last name "Halen") or filed correctly, just displayed weirdly on patents.google.com (since it appears correctly on the linked uspto.gov [0]). [0] http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=/netahtml/PTO/srchnum.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&d=PALL&s1=4656917.PN http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=H....
- ghostpepper 6y agoSo is the rendering on the patent application correct or incorrect?
- mc32 6y agoHis middle name was ‘Lodewijk’, ‘Van’ is just part of a compound last name like Von Richthofen or Fitz Patrick, O’Leary, Di Chirico, etc.
- mcv 6y agoI'd heard before they were Dutch born, but still, to hear that Eddie Van Halen was actually called Edward Lodewijk van Halen makes him sound way more Dutch. And here I was thinking that Jan Akkerman was the best Dutch guitar player ever.
- ghostpepper 6y agoSo in that case, why does it make sense to split up a compound name?
- mc32 6y agoBlame it on tradition. Just like today we don’t write “today” as “to day” as used to be the case.
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