The Dutch in New York, for example, used the patronymic system of names until 1687 when the advent of English rule mandated surname usage.

On the other hand, what appears to be the first known example of " Robin Hood " as stock name for an outlaw dates to 1262 in Berkshire, where the surname " Robehod " was applied to a man apparently because he had been outlawed.

Another significant example can be found in the Norman onomastics: the widespread surname Lecesne, with variant spellings: Le Cesne, Lesène, Lecène and Cesne.

The law does allow a person to retain a patronymic as a middle name in addition to the surname, as was common in Early Modern times ; this is not a common practice, but does occur, a modern example being Audhild Gregoriusdotter Rotevatn ).

By way of example, the actor / writer / director Albert Brooks was born " Albert Einstein " and changed his surname so that his name would not be a distraction that would evoke the renowned physicist of the same name.

An example is Di, Marquis of Ouyangting, whose descendants took the surname Ouyang.

For example, Yuan Taotu took the second character of his grandfather's style name Boyuan ( 伯爰 ) as his surname.

For example, the German surname Römer becomes Romer or Roemer in English.

For senior members of the peerage, the appellation of lord is used as a courtesy title for some or all of their children ; for example the younger sons of dukes and marquesses are entitled to use the style ' Lord ( first name ) ( surname )'.

In south India, where use of two names is by no means universal, surname is placed before personal name and in most cases it is kept as only initial ( for example ' S.

For example in Greece, if a man called Papadopoulos has a daughter, she will likely be named Papadopoulou ( if the couple have decided their offspring will take the father's surname ), since that name has a female version.

This still happens, in some communities where a surname is particularly common, for example on the Isle of Lewis in Scotland, many residents have the family name MacLeod ( son of Lewis ) and so may still be known by a surname symbolising their occupation such as ' Kevin the post ' and ' Kevin Handbag '

Sometimes, for single mothers or when the father would or could not recognize the child, the mother's surname has been used twice: for example, " Ana Reyes Reyes ".

In India Chandra is a common surname for example ' Anurag Chandra ' and ' Ashima Chandra '.

Since names in Bulgarian are gender-based, Bulgarian women have the-ova surname suffix ( Cyrillic :-овa ), for example, Maria Ivanova.

Other common Bulgarian male surnames have the-ev surname suffix ( Cyrillic :-ев ), for example Stoev, Ganchev, Peev, and so on.

The female surname in this case would have the-eva surname suffix ( Cyrillic :-ева ), for example: Galina Stoeva.

It used to be given to the child of an unmarried woman ( for example the son of Kuna will get the surname Kunin and the son of Gana – Ganin ).

The style used to refer to individual TDs during debates in Dáil Éireann is the member's surname preceded by Deputy (): for example, " Deputy Martin ", " an Teachta Ó Máirtín ".

It is interesting to note that while it is essentially an English surname, Manning has occasionally been used as a synonym of the Gaelic surname O ' Mannin and that, for example, Cornet John Manning of O ' Neill's dragons in King James II's Irish army, was an O ' Mannin.

The adoption of the Mountbatten-Windsor surname does not apply to members of the Royal Family who are not descended from the Queen ( her cousins, for example, and the descendants of Princess Margaret ).

When used in science, for example geology, eras denote clearly defined periods of time of arbitrary but well defined length, such as for example the Mesozoic Era from 252 Ma – 66 Ma, delimited by a start event and an end event.

For example, a study of the Amitsoq gneisses from western Greenland used five different radiometric dating methods to examine twelve samples and achieved agreement to within 30 Ma on an age of 3, 640 Ma.

The vast majority of Austronesian languages are non-tonal, but a small number, for example Ma ' ya ( which also has lexical stress ) have developed tone, and also the Tsat language has developed tone probably as a result of areal linguistic effects and contact with Chinese, Hlai / Li, and the other tonal languages of Hainan.

For example, Ma ' at is often depicted with an ostrich feather, " the feather of truth ," on her head, or with a feather for a head.

For example, in the Maghreb ( in North Africa ), in time of drought the maidens of Ma. zouna carry every evening in procession through the streets a doll called ghonja, really a dressed-up wooden spoon, symbolizing a pre-Islamic rain-spirit.

For example, Friedrich von Hausen's " Ich denke underwilen " is regarded as a contrafactum of Guiot de Provins's " Ma joie premeraine ".

Adler and Sullivan's Auditorium Building ( 1889 ) is an early example of splendid acoustical engineering, as is their Kehilath Anshe Ma ' ariv Synagogue.

Also, Muslims already in China before the Mongol conquest were not put into the Second class Semu position, and example of this is the ancestors of the Empress Ma of the Ming Dynasty, whose ancestors arrived during the Song Dynasty, and participated in resistance against the Mongols.

A handful of the new hilltops, such as Sde Boaz, Ma ' ale Rehav ' am and Esh Kodesh are populated by both religious and non-religious Jews and there is a sense that they wish to serve as an example of religious tolerance in a society where the two groups often live apart from one another.

The remains of these volcanoes are still visible, one example of which is Rhobell Fawr dating from 510 Ma.

A notable example of miming includes John Williams ' piece at President Obama ’ s inauguration, which was a recording made two days earlier and mimed by musicians Yo-Yo Ma, Itzhak Perlman.

An example of this would be: " Ma ' am, I forgot to do my takda because, kasi po, my mother was sick and kinailangan ko pong alagaan siya while she was in the hospital.

For example, assuming the Sun remains on its equator, asteroid 951 Gaspra, with a radius of 6 km and a semi-major axis of 2. 21 AU, would in 240 Ma ( 240 million years ) go from a rotation period of 12 h to 6 h and vice versa.

For example around Ma Ma Creek, rich swampy wetlands provided a haven for many animal species not currently found on the downs.

The Hindu Goddess Kali, or Kali Ma, is often seen as an example of the Crone aspect.

For example, the former prime minister Banharn Silpa-Archa's unusual Archa element is a translation into Thai of his family's former name Ma ( 馬, 马, " horse ").

" Sir " and " Madam / Ma ' am ", for example, are considered acceptable forms of address for most of the world's heads of state, including royalty.

It also provided information of sea routes, for example, the sea route from Zayton to Hormuz via Java and Ma ' bar ( There remain traces on the Honmyōji and Tenri copies ).

An example of Schaffenberger's art, drawing the young Ma and Pa Kent, from The New Adventures of Superboy # 1 ( January 1980 ).

For example, each of cos (), cos (), cos () satisfies.

The book closes abruptly () with an epistolary warning based on the emblematic trope of a fast growing vine present in Persian narratives, and popularized in certain collections of Aesop's fables such as The Gourd and the Palm-tree during the Renaissance, for example by Andrea Alciato.

** Heterogeneous aggregate data types () allow related data elements to be accessed, for example assigned, as a unit.

For example, the name Delphi and its associated deity, Apollon Delphinios, are explained in the Homeric Hymn which tells of how Apollo carried Cretans over the sea in the shape of a dolphin () to make them his priests.

For example, the Akkadian sign AN () could be an ideograph for " deity ", an ideogram for the god Anum in particular, a logograph for the Akkadian stem il-" deity ", a logograph for the Akkadian word šamu " sky ", or a syllabogram for either the syllable an or il.

What's interesting about this example is that the code will work even if the read () causes an error, for instance, if the file does not exist.

For example, a Jones vectors component of () indicates retardation by ( or 90 degree ) compared to 1 ().

For example, a positive pion () is made of one up quark and one down antiquark ; and its corresponding antiparticle, the negative pion (), is made of one up antiquark and one down quark.

For example, the charm quark was first seen in the J / Psi meson () in 1974, and the bottom quark in the upsilon meson () in 1977.

For example, the sample mean () can be used as an estimate of the mean parameter ( μ ) of the population from which the sample was drawn.

For example, notable types of baozi from Shanghai such as xiaolongbao () and the shengjian mantou () are usually about four centimetres in diameter, much smaller than the typical baozi or mantou elsewhere.

For example () is used to indicate a smiling face character in the Unicode character set.

Bowed instruments may have originated in the equestrian cultures of Central Asia, an example being the Kobyz () or kyl-kobyz is an ancient Turkic, Kazakh string instrument or Mongolian instrument Morin huur:

The following example of an ASP page with VBScript displays the current time in 24-hour format ( Note that an '=' sign occurring after a context switch (<%) is short-hand for a call to Write () method of the Response object ), but it is also used as the default script for error messages with the windows operating systems.

For example, in the brewing industry, the Plato table, which lists sucrose concentration by weight against true SG, were originally ( 20 ° C / 4 ° C ) that is based on measurements of the density of sucrose solutions made at laboratory temperature ( 20 ° C ) but referenced to the density of water at 4 ° C which is very close to the temperature at which water has its maximum density of ρ () equal to 0. 999972 g / cm < sup > 3 </ sup > ( or 62. 43 lb < sub > m </ sub >· ft < sup >− 3 </ sup >).

For example, in the sentence, แล ้ วเธอจะไปไหน (): So where are you going ?, แล ้ ว () is used as a discourse particle.

For example, by 1952 members of the SS like Otto Skorzeny could be declared formally denazified () in absentia by a German government arbitration board and without any proof that this was true.

" Another example is didaniyisgi () which means " the final catcher " or " he catches them finally and conclusively ," meaning " policeman.

However, some nouns are pronounced differently in their plural forms: for example, œil (" eye ") becomes yeux, cheval (" horse ") becomes chevaux, and os (" bone " or " bones ") is pronounced differently when it is plural () from when it is singular (); and even with nouns for which this is not the case, a distinction will still usually be made in speech, as there will usually be a neighboring article or determiner whose pronunciation does change with the noun's number ( due to number agreement ; see below ).

For example, the Earth's mean specific gravity () is far higher than the typical specific gravity of rocks at the surface (), implying that the deeper material is denser.

As a result, besides alveolar " r ", the endings of many words which are pronounced in other varieties of French are not pronounced at all or are pronounced differently, for example, saying " connaissant " () instead of " connaissance " ().

For example, all versions of Microsoft Windows operating system shows a file of 2 < sup > 20 </ sup > bytes as " 1. 00 MB " in its file properties dialog, while showing a file of 10 < sup > 6 </ sup > () bytes as 976 kB.

For example, a shared use path has a recommended one directional width of, while a bidirectional path should be significantly wider () to accommodate bidirectional traffic and users.