Show HOW NAMES BECOME CHANGED sometimes intentionally but more often due to the wear and tear of time who was who is the su suggested ested title for a new book to contal contain n the names of all persons who have chan changed cl their names A row mew publication will do that in england if the work Is carried back tar far elou enough gli it will be found that scarcely a name lifts has survived the wear and tear of time some of the changes are intentional like our dally daily applications in court but most of them are due to bad spellers or poor pronunciation and phonetic spelling to express the errors of pronunciation nun nuncia clation tion our dutch ancestors had a habit of cutting oft off everything that went down boand to and including the van the name burch was originally birch and meant a man who lived by the birch tree it Is a curious comment on this new book that the london newspaper editor who Is putting it out has juggled his own name after the english custom when taking kin a title good names are a misfortune when they tire are used like family portraits to make snobs exchange e |