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Updated: May 21, 2025
It is a nickname which, as with the Russian peasants, takes the place of Christian and surname together. A man will tell you: "My name is Luigi, but they call me, by contranome, O'Canzirro. I don't know my surname."
All those relics of older civilizations are disappearing under the standardizing influence of conscription, emigration and national schooling. And soon enough the Contranome-system will become a thing of the past. I shall be sorry to see it go, though it has often driven me nearly crazy. What is a contranome? The same as a sopranome.
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