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The "Manchester Guardian's" story of the man \rho called his first pair of twins, Kate and Duplicate, the second Peter and Repeater, and the third, Max and Climax, might have gone on in that way till he came to Twenty tj»d Plenty, for the arrival of offspring gives a great fillip to masculine inventiveness. There is the famous case of the family of Tollemache-Tollemache, in which Lyonel is the traditional name for the eldest son. But "the Rev. R. W., L. Tollemache, having had one Lyonel by his first wife, married again, and the problem arrived when a second son was born. This was how he solved it: Lyulph Ydalia Odda Nestor Egbert Lyonel Taedmag Hugh Erchenwyne Saxon Esa Cromwell Orma NeVill Dysart: of which the initials read, "Lyonel, the Second." A younger daughter got an even longer name, but without cryptogrammatic significance. And there are eycri cases in which a child has been dowered with a complete, alphabet of initials, beginning with Aana and ending with. Zeus*
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Press, Volume LVII, Issue 17112, 6 April 1921, Page 8
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238Page 8 Advertisements Column 5 Press, Volume LVII, Issue 17112, 6 April 1921, Page 8
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