"art" wrote in message
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On 13 Nov, 18:10, Roy Lewallen wrote:
Dave wrote:

Crap. Just read my own post and realized I misspelled Roy Lewallen's
last
name. My apologies. It's not been a good day...

Don't feel bad. My sister-in-law still spells it like you did, and I've
been married to her sister for 39 years. Many years ago, I idly
collected misspellings from mail, memos, and the like, and had
accumulated more than 30 different ones when I lost interest.

One way is just as good as another, anyway. My particular spelling came
from the first literate person in my branch of the family who, in about
1850, spelled it like it sounded to him. His brother, and many other
relatives as they each became literate, spelled it in various other
ways. Including, I'm sure, the way you did. Considering the family's
history, it wouldn't surprise me if there are still a few branches yet
to become literate and devise their own spellings.

Roy Lewallen, W7EL

Roy's surname is of Welsh origin. Queen Bodacia and her sisters
prevented
Romans who had conquered England in the BC era from conquering Wales.
There is a statue of that defiant queen on the side of the River
Thames
opposite the House of Commons and the House of Lords( and Big Ben).
Roy does not spell his name as in the traditional Welsh language.
Probably those on Ellis Island misspelled it not understanding the
lilting
accent of a Welsh miner.
Art


LOL. Sounds like my own family history, with the great grandfather paying
to change the spelling of the last name to correct it, and actually screwing
it up. He couldn't read either, but somehow he got the idea that it was
wrong, and went to the legal trouble of "straightening it out." Yeah,
right.

Thanks, I needed that this morning.

Dave