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  2. List of irregularly spelled English names - Wikipedia

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    Many of these are degenerations in the pronunciation of names that originated in other languages. Sometimes a well-known namesake with the same spelling has a markedly different pronunciation. These are known as heterophonic names or heterophones (unlike heterographs , which are written differently but pronounced the same).

  3. List of irregularly spelt places in the United Kingdom

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    This is a sublist of List of irregularly spelled English names. These common suffixes have the following regular pronunciations, which are historic, well established and etymologically consistent. However, they may be counterintuitive, as their pronunciation is inconsistent with the usual phonetics of English. -b(o)rough and -burgh – / b ər ə /

  4. English name - Wikipedia

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    English names are personal names used in, or originating in, England. In England, as elsewhere in the English-speaking world , a complete name usually consists of one or more given names , commonly referred to as first names, and a (most commonly patrilineal , rarely matrilineal ) family name or surname , also referred to as a last name.

  5. Surname - Wikipedia

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    In English and other languages like Spanish—although the usual order of names is "first middle last"—for the purpose of cataloging in libraries and in citing the names of authors in scholarly papers, the order is changed to "last, first middle," with the last and first names separated by a comma, and items are alphabetized by the last name.

  6. Category:Surnames of English origin - Wikipedia

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    Surnames of English origin. This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:Surnames of British Isles origin . It includes Surnames of British Isles origin that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent.

  7. Anglicisation of names - Wikipedia

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    Since preserving the name's sound was legally important, common forms of Surname changes involved spelling adaptations that helped English readers replicate the original German pronunciation. [ 24 ] The First and Second World Wars created pockets of xenophobia against German Americans.

  8. Shaw (name) - Wikipedia

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    The name is of English and Scottish origin. In some cases, the surname is an Americanization of a similar-sounding Ashkenazic Jewish surname. [1] In England and Scotland, the name is a topographic name for someone who lived by a copse or thicket. [1] This name is derived from the Middle English schage, shage, schawe, and shawe, from the Old ...

  9. Howell (name) - Wikipedia

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    He is the most famous historical bearer of the name, and was recorded with the title King of the Britons by 950 AD. Howell as a surname is derived from the name of an ancestor, meaning the "son of Hoel" (and variants). Its original Welsh form would use the prefix ap, for example: Owain ap Hywel ("Owain son of Hywel"). [8] The Latin motto for ...