There's a meme floating around right now (did I see it in one of Sarah's collections?) of a picture of someone's cell phone contact list with names like "John the plumber" and "Neighbor Jane" and things like that with a caption expressing understanding of how family names came to be.
There's a meme floating around right now (did I see it in one of Sarah's collections?) of a picture of someone's cell phone contact list with names like "John the plumber" and "Neighbor Jane" and things like that with a caption expressing understanding of how family names came to be.
I know of a woman in SCA whose chosen SCA name was a locative until the other members changed it to her occupation because she sold stuff.