Re: Ath aeldhôf-vy!

Thomas Weir wrote:
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>Quoting Dan Jones <dan@...>:
>
> > Whence the form "Kristopher" comes I'm not sure. It looks like it could be
> > frivolous respelling of the traditional Chr- (along the lines of "Krystal"
> > or "Kassandra") but his father insists that that spelling has been in the
> > family for generations. The surname "Falkus" is Eastern-European, IIRC,
> > which might shed some light on the spelling.
>
>How is <Kassandra> a frivolous misspelling?
"frivolous" isn't really an appropriate choice here- I more meant
"different from the way that *traditionally* the name is spelt in the UK
for personal names", i.e. different from "Cassandra", which is more
"normal" here.

><Kristopher> seems to me entirely expected if the family
>hails originally from a non-Anglophone Germanic country.
The internal <ph> seems a bit odd, to me, which was my point (very badly
stated). Especially as the family seems to think that the surname is Baltic
in origin- either Latvian or Lithuanian. AFAIK, <ph> isn't used in the
orthography of either language.

Dan

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