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[-] lepinkainen@lemmy.world 9 points 8 months ago

IIRC the plague was also the thing that invented surnames.

Before you were just John, but after you had to travel to other cities and there might already be a John so you became John Smith or John

this post was submitted on 25 May 2025
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