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...resumed her maiden name recently (with the prefix Mrs.) "to avoid confusion" with Wa-laceite. Ted, now editor of the new Manhattan tabloid, Daily Compass...
...very painfully that some Scotsman in some other age compelled a grandmother of mine to submit to his desires. In Bermuda I am black and treated as Bermuda treats the black people. So I want to be called by a name that belongs to my race and requires no prefix...
...town's name, which means "the Duke's wood." perpetuates the memory of the Duke of Brabant, who gave it a municipal charter in 1185. (The odd-looking prefix is the Dutch sign of the possessive case.) The land around 's Hertogenbosch is low-lying and swampy. The Maas is three miles away to the north...
...just another of the quaint, peaceful villages that dot the Breton peninsula-a set pattern of small tidy houses, large untidy barns and barnyards, a few shops, a church at the crossroads. Even their names-Plouescat, Plougonven, Ploudaniel-bear the patina of time: plou is the ancient Celtic prefix for "parish...
...this country and is derived from Timosha which is the diminutive of Timofei (Timotheus). O. J. Frederiksen's "Hughes-ovka" (TIME, Feb. 2) is a tour de force. There are a number of hamlets scattered all over the Kuban country and the North Caucasus with the prefix "Youz" or "Yuz" which is Turco-Tartar for "hundred" and denotes the original post of a Sotnja or a troop of one hundred Cossacks. The language of the Cossacks is full of words of Tartar origin and so are the names of their villages. Any bets...