Re: USAGE: Betreft: USAGE: surname prefixes
| From: | John Cowan <jcowan@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, April 20, 2000, 17:34 |
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Barry Garcia wrote:
> I've been wondering, What would the surname "Vanderwall" ( Van der wall)
> mean?
And while we're on this tack, there's my father-in-law's surname "Waas".
Whenever I ask Dutch people about this name, they look at one another,
snicker, and pretend not to have heard.
What gives?
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