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#4122: Odd names in Haiti : Chamberlain adds (fwd)

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Subject: #4122: Odd names in Haiti : Chamberlain adds (fwd)
From: Robert Corbett <bcorbett@netcom.com>
Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2000 08:23:32 -0700 (PDT)
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From: Greg Chamberlain <GregChamberlain@compuserve.com>


Can anyone explain why people from northern Haiti (or is it more NW Haiti?)
with surnames ending in -eus and -ius are laughed at by people in the
capital?  What are they reading into such names?


        Greg Chamberlain

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