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Re: Origin of my name
in reply to a message by Ted
-Ford usually indicates that someone is named for a place (Oxford, Swineford) a ford is a place where animals cross a river, hence usually it's an animal + ford. I don't know what a Ted would be... possibly some abbreviated or mangled version of an animal name.
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