Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2005 17:01:59 -0500
Reply-To: John Rodgers <inua@CHARTER.NET>
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From: John Rodgers <inua@CHARTER.NET>
Subject: Re: Now Names
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Interesting!
On one side of my family the ancestral name is McLeod. The real name in
the beginning - the first one of us as Norsemen to land on the northern
shores of what is now Scotland and to build a castle there on the Isle
of Skye - was not McLeod, but Mac Leod. The "mac" meant "Son of " so
the ancestor that landed there was "Mac" Leod, or "Son or Leod". So it
was that the "Son of Leod" landed there on the Isle of Skye and built a
the family castle that still stands to this day, currently lived in by
one John McLeod - direct decendant of Mac Leod. Somewhere down through
the generations there developed many variations of that name - all Mac
Leods in one form or another. McLeod, McLoud, Macloud, and on and on
it goes.
I even have a McLeod cousin - much older than I and now deceased- whose
name is Evan. I supposed that could be stretched out to be Evan Mac
Leod. Not far from Evan Mac Donald. Only thing is the name is very much
Scottish.
Funny about words and names.
Regards,
John Rodgers
88 GL driver
Evan Mac Donald wrote:
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>Most of you guys have got it easy. Try getting someone to spell "Schwaia"
>write the first time. No matter how slowly I spell it, the American mind
>cannot grasp the idea of "aia". It's quite funny.
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>My wife
>has a somewhat similar problem. Her name is Evon - spelled just as it sounds
>- which results in telephone salespeople asking for Evan. At least it makes
>it easy for me to immediately identify the sales calls. :-) She thought
>her spelling was unique, until I found a package in the grocery store of
>"Evon's Nuts." Oddly descriptive. I had said that about her often.
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>Yes, I have similar problems with both mt first and last names. I am Evan Mac Donald. I have been "Eyvonne" or "Evoynne" more times than I can count. When I was down South, I went by "E.J." to cut down on the confusion. A guy can only take so much of a girls name, after all.
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>And for the last name - I'm the farmer, not the clown! That was my answer to all the smart-alecks, especially while in the service! LOL!
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>Evan Mac Donald
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>1984 Wolfburg
>1985 GL 7 Pass.
>1991 Carat Weekender
>1972 Chevy P/U
>1993 Bonneville
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