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Show ONE LETTER NAMES. It must be very convenient to possess pos-sess a surname consisting of a single letter of the alphabet. The Paris papers pa-pers mention the singular case of a certain Marie whose surname consists of the one letter B. Alany years ago there was a shop kept in the Rue de Louvain in Brussels by Theres O, and there is a Mme. O living with her two children at Alolenbeck, a suburb of the Belgian capital. In the Rue de I'Ange in the same commune lives a Air. O 1 (with a circumflex accent), who is no relative of Alme. O. In 1866 among the Belgian recruits was a young man named O, who could not cross, yet he could so easily have learned to write his own name! In the department of Somme there is a village called Y. and Arnsterdan has the river Y. In China there is a large town of the same brief name. In the Chinese province of Ho-na:i Ho-na:i there is a city called U, and in France there is a river and in Sweden a town rejoicing in the name of A. |