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My surname is an example of this! Pugh comes from ap Hugh (though more commonly spelt in Welsh these days as Huw)

• taurknaut 2y ago
  > (though more commonly spelt in Welsh these days as Huw) Somehow this is also a saner spelling with English orthography. We should probably all use this spelling.
  • frandroid 2y ago
    Imagine the chaos if English had a phonetic spelling reformation like Spanish had a while ago...