Dylan William Hardison wrote:
>
> Now we just need an O', perhaps an O'Brien. Or an O'Reilly
That should be O'Logan, actually, to continue the trend. Then we'd have an ap Logan and a Logansen.
> and the ever popular -son suffix, introduced by the vikings and/or
> normans...
No self-respecting Viking would spell it -son. It's -sen, son.
> And Russians have a special "father's name" separate from the lastname.
> Someone with the name Alexandr, his children will be (firstname)
> Alexandrovich (lastname)...
For a son it would be Alexandrovich or Alexadrov, and for a daughter it would be Alexandrovna or Alexandrova. I'm not entirely clear on why there's two sets for each gender.
>
> hehe, I remember how I read that Linus' grandfather basically invented the
> last name "Torvalds"... his grandfather was "Torvald Torvalds".
I'd never heard that. What an odd circumstance.
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