Re: Maya Angelou died (28-5-2014)

On 2024-05-31 21:06:53 +0000, Aidan Kehoe said:

 Ar an t-aonú lá is triochad de mí Bealtaine, scríobh Athel Cornish-Bowden:
  > On 2024-05-31 07:50:03 +0000, Athel Cornish-Bowden said:
 >
 > > On 2024-05-30 18:47:03 +0000, Christian Weisgerber said:
 > >
 > >> On 2024-05-30, Athel Cornish-Bowden <me@yahoo.com> wrote:
 > >>
 > >>>> No. "Cornish" is not a Cornish name: what would be the point of callig
 > >>>> someone Cornish if everyone around is Cornish. The name is much more
 > >>>> common in Devon, just as "Devenish" is more common in Somerset than it
 > >>>> is in Devon.
 > >>>
 > >>> I used to know María Teresa Miras Portugal (until she died): she was
 > >>> Spanish, not Portuguese.
 > >>
 > >> Actress Cécile de France is Belgian.
 > >
 > > Indeed. I didn't think of her, but I knew she was Belgian.
 >
 > An even more prominent example is François Hollande: he is not Dutch, but is
 > French.
 Ian Fleming was also British, not from Flanders.
 Ian Paisley was (and Ian Óg Paisley is) not from Paisley.
 George C. Scott was from West Virginia, not Scotland.
 Neither the actor James Franco nor the deceased caudillo of Spain have any
immediate family background in Franconia, nor even France.
 Percy French, Irish songwriter, was not French by nationality.
 Counterexample; Charles de Gaulle was French, but his name was Dutch.
 Complication; Chester Nimitz was of recent German descent, but had US
nationality; his family name is of Slavic origin but designates a German.
 I’m sure I could (and we could) keep going with these!

As a possible counterexample, what about Deutsch and Deutscher, which seem to be reasonably common surnames in Germany?
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Athel -- French and British, living in Marseilles for 37 years; mainly in England until 1987.