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Originally Posted by HomeInMyShoes
I do admit that some letters were difficult to find, but it did make me find some interesting things.
X - Xingjian, Gao Soul Mountain
Q - Quarrington, Paul Whale Music
1900s - London, Jack The Call of the Wild
1930s - Huxley, Aldous Brave New World
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I'm a bit uncertain about transliterated Chinese names, because the transliteration schemes seem open to change. See Mao Zedong/Tse-tung.
And then there's Xenophon, who apparently only has the one name, so does it count as a surname?
I went so far as to look in my local phone directory to see if there were any English/European surnames beginning with X. There were only three Xs, all Chinese, two of whom seemed to be the same person with a slightly different spelling.
I guess if I'm close enough when we approach the end of the year I might go for it.
