Our Contact Lists Are Just Like Old-Fashioned Surnames

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Our Contact Lists Are Just Like Old-Fashioned Surnames
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A video by BuzzFeed explains how the types of surnames created centuries ago are similar to how we organize our contact lists today.

explaining that this is actually the same way people have been classifying their relationships with others for thousands of years. In fact, Western surnames were created in the exact way we organize our contact list s.Aleksic starts his video by explaining that before the 12th century, everyone just went by their first name. However, once the population in England started to expand, they needed to do more record-keeping.

Third are the adjectival surnames, referring to a characteristic or behavior. Examples of this are contacts like"Dylan DO NOT ANSWER" and"Steph ."This is how someone who moved quickly would end up with the last name Swift.

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