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Re: Can there be two forms of a name in the same language?

by thegriffon

8/2/2021, 9:00 PM

Unlike most words, names have no standardised form. Historically even one person's name will have been recorded in several different forms, in their lifetime. In some cases we can identify some as mistakes, but others are simply different scribal conventions, and standard abbreviations.

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