[svlug] Larry's last name is spelled wrong :-)

[Seth David Schoen]

Larry M. Augustin writes:

> I think it's one of those cases where the ancestors changed the
> spelling along the way.  "Augustin" or "Augustine" derives from the
> Latin and thus shows up in all the romance languages (French, German,
> Spanish, etc.) in various forms.

As in the author of _De Civitate Dei_, originally called Augustinus?

I knew a man whose name was "Sacerdote" and who guessed that it had originally
been "Cohen". :-)

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