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Irish on my dad's side, Scottish and Irish on my mum's. Pretty standard Irish name Sorcha Shóna with a Catholic Irish surname. My family didn't take the soup so my surname still has it's O'

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No, I'm not stalking you .

But what does "My family didn't take the soup so my surname still has it's O'" mean?  I've looked it up and can't find any reference to it.

Anyways I'm of German, Ukrainian and Hungarian descent, first and middle names are Latin, and I think my last name is a fairly rare Hungarian name

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I'm kinda surprised there aren't many Ukrainians on here lol

Anyways I'm of German, Ukrainian and Hungarian descent, first and middle names are Latin, and I think my last name is a fairly rare Hungarian name

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Why aren't you surprised there aren't many Ukranians on here?

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Quote: from Ju5tin at 10:28 am on Jan. 19, 2012

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I'm kinda surprised there aren't many Ukrainians on here lol  

 Anyways I'm of German, Ukrainian and Hungarian descent, first and middle names are Latin, and I think my last name is a fairly rare Hungarian name

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Why aren't you surprised there aren't many Ukranians on here?

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Quote: from joule at 12:34 pm on Jan. 19, 2012

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Quote: from Ju5tin at 10:28 am on Jan. 19, 2012

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I'm kinda surprised there aren't many Ukrainians on here lol

  Anyways I'm of German, Ukrainian and Hungarian descent, first and middle names are Latin, and I think my last name is a fairly rare Hungarian name

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 Why aren't you surprised there aren't many Ukranians on here?

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I guess because practically everyone in my community is Ukrainian, I'd expect to see at least a few Uks on here :\

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There are a few, though not many.

Is there a large Ukranian  community in Saskachewan?

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Quote: from Ju5tin at 10:40 am on Jan. 19, 2012

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Quote: from joule at 12:34 pm on Jan. 19, 2012

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Quote: from Ju5tin at 10:28 am on Jan. 19, 2012

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I'm kinda surprised there aren't many Ukrainians on here lol    

  Anyways I'm of German, Ukrainian and Hungarian descent, first and middle names are Latin, and I think my last name is a fairly rare Hungarian name

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  Why aren't you surprised there aren't many Ukranians on here?

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I guess because practically everyone in my community is Ukrainian, I'd expect to see at least a few Uks on here :\

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There are a few, though not many.

Is there a large Ukranian community in Saskachewan?

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Quote: from Dongle at 4:34 pm on Jan. 18, 2012

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Irish on my dad's side, Scottish and Irish on my mum's. Pretty standard Irish name Sorcha Shóna with a Catholic Irish surname. My family didn't take the soup so my surname still has it's O'

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No, I'm not stalking you .

But what does "My family didn't take the soup so my surname still has it's O'" mean? I've looked it up and can't find any reference to it.

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Not stalking me? Riiiight.

I'll explain though, in Ireland surnames such as Leary, Rourke, Sullivan, Crowley, Keefe, Brien, Donovan, Dywer, Dunphy etc should all have O' beforehand so.. O'Rourke, O' Ryan, O'Connor, O'Donnell, O'Ahern, O'Donoghue, O'Hurley for example. Most names when translated into Irish still have their O so Crowley would be O'Crulaoi and Brien would be O'Briain. The O means 'of' so it basically denotes what clan you came 'of'. For a surname like Burke or Barry they wouldn't have an O' cos they're Norman names. You can tell they're Norman cos in Irish Burke is De Burca and Barry is De Barra. The same applies  to a Norman name such as Fitzgerald, Fitzpatrick, Fitzgibbon etc. You can tell a lot about someone family history and their origins from their surname. Craig, Butler, Cantwell, Wilson, Desmond would all be Anglo-Irish names, or 'Prod' names in origin. These names wouldn't of had an O to begin with.

In Ireland most Irish people can automatically recognise what name is missing an O' or what name wouldn't have an O. Its a common joke/myth/'fact' that someone called Aoife Donoughue for example is missing their O', why? Because back in the famine the English ran soup kitchens and for those Catholics that dropped their O' and became Protestant they were given or as we would say, they 'took the soup'. Its mostly a joke here. The name would still translate into Irish with the O, or in a girls case with the Ni intact but in English it mysteriously vanished! Its mostly a joke here, when you meet someone with called Enda Kavanagh, you'd automatically think, 'hmm someone took the soup?'. Its a joke really.

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