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Dear WO'N: One diminutive I have mentioned before. " -cock" as in John Hancock, meant John Llittlejohn.
I am distantly related to the author of "Little Women", whose father got tired of having jokes made
about his name Alcock, meaning Little Al that he changed it to Alcott.
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WO'N, Go to: http://store.yahoo.com/4crests/Scroll down past all the pictures to about two thirds of the way down the scroll bar and hit 'ndex'. Wait for that to open and scroll right down almost to the bottom of the contents list where you will find listings for the other letters described as 'Surname Meanings A-D' etc. The general 'Surname Meanings' heading is useless.
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link to other namesThanks, dxb! 
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Though it doesn't look like it, my name, Remington, is actually from the Hebrew profession of preparing small snacks. Noshimers were common throughout the middle ages, but the name mutated to notchimer in Germany and thence to notjimer or notgimer in England.
It was there that my many times great grandfather, Det Notgimer was born. His severe dyslexia resulted in the penultimate shift, from Det Notgimer to Ted Remigton. We still don't know where the middle n in Remington came from.
TEd
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Oh! I know! Juan put it there! 
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"N" of story! 
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