On May 7, 8:52 am, Douglas Richardson <royalances...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On May 7, 9:13 am, t...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
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> < Obviously, you missed "Aaron"'s post on scholarly debate.
> <
> < taf
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> When someone uses a google hit to prove a point, he obviously hasn't
> done his research.
Umm, you said that the English surname was Holand, not Holland. A
Google search using an English given name is perfectly viable research
to disprove this imprecise generalization. Now you have qualified
your original statement, discussing what the medieval form was. So be
it, but that is a different claim.
> Referring to Aaron's comments is simply a red
> herring.
>
> A red herring is something that distracts attention from the real
> issue.
And the real issue of this thread had nothing to do with which form of
the surname you prefer, until you decided to pontificate.
taf
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