On Feb 3, 2004, at 21:00 , David Silberstein wrote: > On Tue, 3 Feb 2004, Paul Echeverri wrote: > >> On Tue, 03 Feb 2004 18:29:15 -0800 (PST), Philip Hart >> <philiph at SLAC.Stanford.EDU> wrote: >>> ps - "Echeverri" has a cool linguistic story, right? - maybe Basque? >> >> Give the man a cigar. >> My wife's maiden-name is Chavarría (which she kept as a hypenation, making her's the longest name I've run across since some Greek names like Eleftoloperous: Chavarría-Klahn), and her father is Bolivian. BUT, apparently is less common than either Echeverri, Echeverria, etc, since she will frequently tell people her name (well, she's a Linguistics grad student, so this is probably not a normal sample of people) and they tend to say, "Echeverria?". -- Matthew S. Klahn Software Architect, CodeTek Studios, Inc. http://www.codetek.com