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  1. Don Romano 🍹 (thj@mastodon.cloud)'s status on Friday, 04-Oct-2019 16:19:50 EDT Don Romano 🍹 Don Romano 🍹

    Tell me...

    Why have I never heard of anyone except Charles Darwin with the surname Darwin?

    Same goes for Watt, Maxwell, Einstein...

    Did these people get special one-surname allocations from the surname council, or is there a rule where families have to change surnames if one family member suddenly makes a surname famous?

    There is a Hitler family, but in that case, it *did* change its name, and for good reason.

    Still, why do famous people have uncommon surnames? What's the reason?

    In conversation Friday, 04-Oct-2019 16:19:50 EDT from mastodon.cloud permalink
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