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山西省临汾市洪洞县辛村乡白石中学2019-2020学年七年级下学期英语第一次月考试卷
Everyone has a surname(family name). But do you know how they came about? British writer David McKie tells us in his new book What's in a Surname?
McKie shows that in Britain some surnames come from people's jobs, for example, "butcher" means someone who sells meat. "Farmer" is a man who has a farm.
Some names are from places like "Warwick", a town in Warwickshire. "Gatsby" came from the village Gaddesby in Leicestershire.
Interestingly, other surnames come from nicknames(昵称), for example, my surname "Whitehead". Hundreds of years ago, people didn't live long. There were few old people with white hair. When people saw somebody with white hair, they would shout "white head" at them!
So, the next time you meet a British with a strange surname, don't be surprised. There might be an interesting history behind it.
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