• The Octonaut@mander.xyz
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    6 days ago

    … why are you putting an apostrophe in McDole? The O-apostrophe in Irish names is an anglicisation of Ó, eg. Ó Briain becomes O’Brien. Mac Dól would become MacDole/McDole.

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      6 days ago

      Yeah fuck this guy for spelling his name the way it was given to him what an asshole

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        6 days ago

        Probably some bureaucrat decades ago making an incorrect assumption that passed down through generations. Happened to my family. No Irish roots whatsoever, yet somehow we ended up with the annoying form-breaking apostrophe in our ‘legal’ name just because it begins with the letter ‘o’.

        “Oscar??? Surely, you’re mistaken. I hereby decree your name to be O’Scar!” ~Arsehole circa 1937

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        6 days ago

        Hey Militant Left, just because every question directed at you assumes you are an asshole, doesn’t mean the same applies to questions to other people