The paucity of Welsh... «The Welsh Language: A History»
sarcastronaut7 февраля 2018The paucity of Welsh surnames is largely the result of the scarcity of male personal names in use in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Wales. There may be some substance to a doggerel attributed to a Tudor judge: Take ten, he said, and call them Rice Another ten and call them Price, Take fifty more and call them Hughes A hundred more I’ll dub them Pughes. Now Roberts name a hundred score And Williams name a legion more, And call, he moaned in languid tones, Call all the others Jones.
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