| From: | Bryan Maloney <bjm10@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, September 23, 1998, 20:25 |
> > more common than last name changes. Often the changes are relatively > > minor and predictable - e.g. John or Jonathan changes to Yonatan;Pet peeve alert! "Jonathan" and "John" are not historically related names. They come from distinct Hebrew roots. Only later have Western Europeans conflated them.