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[-] Zephyr@sh.itjust.works 31 points 1 day ago

You forgot to add the location. John Philadelphia Carpenter.

[-] merc@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

Hence names like Lee, Stone, Woods, Green, Moore...

[-] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 day ago
[-] Zephyr@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I have a friend whose surname is Fletcher. I learned recently that's just an arrow maker. That said I've seen in other regions people are named for what time and location they are born and by gender.

[-] Janx@piefed.social 2 points 21 hours ago

"Just" an arrow maker!? Let's see you make some quality remote stabby-sticks...

[-] Zephyr@sh.itjust.works 1 points 19 hours ago

Bluetooth stabbers

[-] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day ago

Apparently my ancestors raised pigs, yay

[-] Zephyr@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago

Is it Swinyard, Swinerd, Hogg, Hogge, Seward, Sweatman, Schweinhardt, Schweiger, Schweinsteige, Dausch, Purcell, or MacUalraig? Apparently there's a lot of surnames for a pig farmer.

[-] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

A lot including at least one more. And you know I'm not gonna tell, even if you guess it. But you haven't even used the same first letter yet.

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