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wwh - I don't know why but Americans often seem to misname me Ron Ward. It was I (Rod Ward) that adopted the motto, but I truly found it listed for the Ward family while browsing through Fairbairn's Book of Crests, as one does. So I claim no credit, other than for the bad translation.
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Aut numquam testes, aut perfice.
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Dear rodward: Please forgive my senile moment in which I misspelled your name. I had another just now, and had to go back and correct it, having made the same mistake twice. I am reminded of the British newspaper that in an article just prior to WWI referred to the "Clown Prince of Germany". And the next day printed an apology which read: "You may be assured that when we wrote "The Clown Prince of Germany" we meant the "Clown Prince of Germany".
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Dear wwh: Thanks for the gracious apology. Of course I get slightly peeved when someone misnames me, but actually I am interested in why this should happen so often over a long period, as far as I remember only with Americans, and always to Ron, not Roy or Rob, Tod, Red, or any other appellation.
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'Of course I get slightly peeved when someone misnames me' given the experience you've cited, might i suggest that it was your *parents* that misnamed you? i mean, why blame a multitude when you could narrow it down to one or two culprits?  <---closest i could come to a tongue-in-cheek emoticon glad to see you posting in the 'top half', rob!! 
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I get slightly peeved when someone misnames me, but actually I am interested in why this should happen so often over a long period, as far as I remember only with Americans, and always to Ron, not Roy or Rob, Tod, Red, or any other appellation.
I speculate that it is because "Ron" is a common name in the US, while all the others - Rod, Roy, Rob, Tod and Red - are relatively unusual. I have known many Rons in my life, but only one Rod and two Robs, and no Roys, Tod(d)s or Reds.
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And what is a YART but a shibboleth twice, and twice, and twice again twice, a YART but a YART itself?
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"Ron" is a common name in the US, while all the others - Rod, Roy, Rob, Tod and Red - are relatively unusual.
Interesting because I've always thought of Tod/Todd as a typical US'n name. There are lots of people from different parts of the English-speaking world who seem to think my name is Roger rather than Robert.
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