There is also a traditional convention in English that surnames beginning Mc and M are listed as if those prefixes were written Mac.

On Tristan da Cunha the population of 264 people share just seven surnames: Glass ( Scottish ), Green ( Dutch ), Hagan ( Irish ), Lavarello ( Italian, a typical Ligurian surname ), Repetto ( Italian, another typical Ligurian surname ), Rogers ( English ) and Swain ( English ).

Family names in many Celtic, English, Iberian, Scandinavian, Armenian and Slavic surnames originate from patronyms, e. g. Wilson ( son of William ), Powell ( from " ap Hywel "), Fernández ( son of Fernando ), Rodríguez ( son of Rodrigo ), Carlsson ( son of Carl ), Petrov ( of Peter ), Stefanović ( son of Stefan, little Stefan ) and O ' Connor ( from " Ó Conchobhair ", meaning grandson / descendant of Conchobhar ).

Some surnames may carry unfortunate connotations in English.

In the United States, 1, 712 surnames cover 50 percent of the population, and about 1 percent of the population has the surname Smith, which is also the most common English name and an occupational name (" metal worker "), a contraction, for instance, of blacksmith or ironsmith, among others.

Approximately 70 percent of Canadians have surnames that are of English, Irish, French, or Scottish derivation.

Rastrick, and the variation Raistrick are English surnames, originating from the area of the town.

The English surname Gibson and Irish surname Collins appear frequently ; the genealogist Pat Elder calls them " core " surnames.

Many were baptized with English surnames while others were given both first and surnames in English.

It was introduced in the 19th century based on surnames which were in turn derived from the Old English names Æthelwine, Ælfwine and Ealdwine.

* Lea ( surname ) and Leigh ( surname ), for related English surnames

Ludgate is generally accepted to derive from the Old English term " hlid-geat " from " hlid " (" lid, cover, opening, gate ") and " geat " or " gæt " (" gate, opening, passage ") and was a common Old English compound meaning " postern " or " swing gate " and surivives in various place names across England as well as in surnames.

A letter to the British Medical Journal in 1869 pointed out that surnames were not in use in Kent in the 12th century, and that in older styles of English handwriting the 1 and 5 characters could easily be confused, and suggested a correct birthdate of 1500.

( name )" in English, since they do not change their surnames on marriage.

In West Low German parlance the ending "… sch ( e )" is sometimes added to surnames of women, related to the standard High German adjective ending "… isch " ( cognitive to English "… ish "), suffixed to nouns or adjectives indicating belonging / pertaining to, being of the kind described by the suffixed word: e. g. de Smidtsche, is Ms Schmidt ( Smith ), – but literally about – the Smithian ( the woman pertaining to a man / family named Schmidt ).

Gaw relatively rare surname amongst those of Scottish, English, and Irish descent, deriving from the Gaelic word meaning " foreigner " ( the surnames names Gall and Gaul are derived from the same word ).

MacLeod and McLeod () are surnames in the English language.

Some Basque-language names and surnames are foreign transliterations into the Basque tongue, e. g. Ander ( English: " Andrew "; Spanish: Andrés ), Mikel ( English: " Michael "; Spanish: Miguel ), or Ane ( English: " Anne "; Spanish: Ana ).

Posthumous Portrait of Percy Shelley | Shelley Writing Prometheus Unbound ( Shelley ) | Prometheus Unbound ( 1845 ) On 17 September 1820, Severn set sail onboard the Maria Crowther from England to Italy with the famous English poet John Keats.

In November, Emlyn Crowther was sacked and replaced by their first non-Kiwi member, English drummer Malcolm Green ( ex-Love Affair, The Honeycombs, Jimmy James & the Vagabonds, Octopus ), who answered an advertisement in Melody Maker, and began rehearsing with the Enz in December 1976.

Major-General Frank Crowther Roberts VC DSO OBE MC ( 2 June 1891 – 12 January 1982 ) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

Leslie Douglas Sargent Crowther CBE ( 6 February 1933 – 29 September 1996 ) was an English comedian, actor and gameshow host.

In 1971 he made The Leslie Crowther Show, a comedy sketch show, with three older comics, Arthur English, Chic Murray and Albert Modley (" Eee it's grand to be daft!

While there, Crowther was cared for by the Anglican Church Missionary Society, and was taught English.

It was reported that someone, allegedly a member of the English College of Surgeons named William Crowther, managed to break into the morgue where Lanne's body was kept and decapitated the corpse, removed the skin and inserted a skull from a white body into the black skin.

On the right, were the horrible and snobbish English couple the Trendles ( Robin Kermode and Liz Crowther ).

For example, the word " Amerika " in German has a one-to-one equivalence to its meaning in modern English: it may denote North America, South America, or both, and in some instances refers to the United States only.

In English usage, the genitive " of Æsir faith " is often used on its own to denote adherents ( both singular and plural ).

The term came to denote the season in 16th century England, a contraction of Middle English expressions like " fall of the leaf " and " fall of the year ".

The word " Bohemian " was used to denote the Czech people as well as the Czech language before the word " Czech " became prevalent in English.

Uses of the word " forest " in English to denote any uninhabited area of non-enclosure are now considered archaic.

Several centuries later, in late Dark Age Europe, the term " firearm " was used in Old English to denote the arm in which the match was held that was used to light the touch hole on the hand cannon.

Observare is a synonym for diligere ; despite the cognate with English, this verb and its corresponding noun, observantia, often denote " esteem " or " affection.

The use of " to " to denote location is common in Newfoundland English.

The term " Physicist " was coined by English philosopher, priest, and historian of science William Whewell in 1840, to denote a cultivator of physics.

* In Jewish folklore, rabbits ( shfanim שפנים ) are associated with cowardice, a usage still current in contemporary Israeli spoken Hebrew ( similar to English colloquial use of " chicken " to denote cowardice ).

The term, which was spelled semeiotics, derives from the Greek σημειωτικός, ( sēmeiōtikos ), " observant of signs " ( from σημεῖον-sēmeion, " a sign, a mark ") and it was first used in English by Henry Stubbes in a very precise sense to denote the branch of medical science relating to the interpretation of signs.

The term is also used specifically to denote re-creation of the dances of the English Regency ( 1795 – 1820 ), American Civil War ( 1860s ), Victorian, and Ragtime eras.

With the shift of time and customs, " brothers " in English is thought by many to be an inappropriate word to denote a mixed-sex group.

By the late 1960s, the social progress achieved by groups in the United States such as the Black Civil Rights Movement ( 1955 – 68 ), had legitimized the racial identity word black as mainstream American English usage to denote black-skinned Americans of African ancestry.

Nouns do not have gender in Modern English, although many of them denote people or animals of a specific sex.

For instance, many nouns in English denote concrete entities, they are pluralized with the suffix-s, and they occur as subjects and objects in clauses.

Many verbs denote actions or states, they are conjugated with agreement suffixes ( e. g. -s of the third person singular in English ), and in English they tend to show up in medial positions of the clauses in which they appear.

In English usage, the term " monastery " is generally used to denote the buildings of a community of monks.

In English law, parliament and more formal situations the term is used to denote any public road used which include streets, country lanes and footpaths as well as main roads such as trunk roads and motorways.

Major telephone-equipment manufacturers, such as Nortel, have an option in their programming to denote Canadian English, which in turn instructs the system to say " number sign " to callers instead of " pound sign ".

According to Mark Miravalle the English word " worship " is equivocal, in that it has been used in Catholic writing, at any rate, to denote both adoration / latria and veneration / dulia, and in some cases even as a synonym for veneration as distinct from adoration:

Regarding the dísir, Simek states that Old Norse dís appears commonly as simply a term for " woman ", just as Old High German itis, Old Saxon idis, and Old English ides, and may have also been used to denote a type of goddess.

** verbal nouns ( correspond to English gerunds like ' studying ', ' jumping ', which denote activities )

Firth is the word in the Lowland Scots language and in English used to denote various coastal waters in Scotland and England.