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- From: willo@youcon.Central.Sun.COM (Doug Willoughby Area SE - Midwest Area )
- Newsgroups: misc.writing
- Subject: Character Names
- Date: 30 Jul 92 17:34:21 GMT
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- I'm in the process of writing a story about a character who is of
- Belgian decent. I'm having a little trouble deciding on a surname
- that sounds ethic enough for this fellow. Any suggestions?
-
- Which brings to mind a more generic question, (along the same lines as
- the recent thread about research for fiction) how does one determine
- the origin of a surname? It would be a glaring error to give a Spanish
- character an English surname, but subtle errors are possible and equally
- annoying. Can someone recommend a reference on the subject?
-
- Doug
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