SURNAMES
The Minister of Labour is reassuring about the position of the old families. For in the insurance lists, he tolls us, the Smiths come first, the Robinsons second, the Taylors third, and the Browns fourth. The Joneses, no doubt, are among the also rans. One item of some personal interest is that “ there are no fewer than 10,400 Ernest Browns.” Evidently there is not so much importance in being Ernest as there was some years ago. Why, by the way, arc some colour names popular and others not? The ‘ Telephone Directory ’ has 26 columns of Browns. 20 of Whites, 14 of Greens, seven of Grays, and Greys, throe of Blacks, but no Reds or Bines or Purples. It is a puzzling discrimination. —‘ Observer.’
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Evening Star, Issue 23189, 11 February 1939, Page 3
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124SURNAMES Evening Star, Issue 23189, 11 February 1939, Page 3
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