Why americans using our surnames??
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Hi..
I find out many americans using LIm, Tay and other surnames highlighted by the design forum here in SG...
What makes our surnames unique that angmohs wants to use them as alias online?
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How do you know they're not Chinese?
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I think one of the design panel guy said they are foreigners in America...chances are theya re not even asians..design global lah..even names are hip
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When in Rome do as the Romans do but when in SIngapore do as the hokkiens do>Originally posted by Catknight:Hi..
I fiond out many americans using LIm, Tay and other surnames highlighted by the design forum here in SG...
What makes our surnames unique that angmohs wants to use them as alias online? 
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How come so many ppl in singapore using american names?
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Yeah but they stayed in America lah... not here in SG....
Hmm...very weird scenerio...maybe someday we can change our surnames to Watson or holmes....one big happy earth family
Imagine a Tay or Wong somewhere in States that has blue eyes and blonde hair -
Maybe in futire our surnames will get patented with genealogy records lah.. dun play play...
Anyway Angmohs got Lee surname why not Tays, Lims, Wongs and Chans... -
Sherlock Holmes and Watson are British lolOriginally posted by Catknight:Yeah but they stayed in America lah... not here in SG....
Hmm...very weird scenerio...maybe someday we can change our surnames to Watson or holmes....one big happy earth family
Imagine a Tay or Wong somewhere in States that has blue eyes and blonde hair -
c'est la vie
names also can share share
don't be selfish -
YEah lar..but if they can change their surnames to Fong or others..why not us...just dun be too serious and forget your heritage and do it for good clean fun
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Who knows maybe a future senator in Washington will name himself a Lau to align himself to China's growing power
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Nothing to do with us Chinese laOriginally posted by Catknight:Maybe in futire our surnames will get patented with genealogy records lah.. dun play play...
Anyway Angmohs got Lee surname why not Tays, Lims, Wongs and Chans...
1. English: topographic name for someone who lived near a meadow or a patch of arable land, Middle English lee, lea, from Old English lea, dative case (used after a preposition) of leah, which originally meant ‘wood’ or ‘glade’.
2. English: habitational name from any of the many places named with Old English leah ‘wood’, ‘glade’, as for example Lee in Buckinghamshire, Essex, Hampshire, Kent, and Shropshire, and Lea in Cheshire, Derbyshire, Herefordshire, Lancashire, Lincolnshire, and Wiltshire.
3. Irish: reduced Americanized form of Ó Laoidhigh ‘descendant of Laoidheach’, a personal name derived from laoidh ‘poem’, ‘song’ (originally a byname for a poet).
4.Americanized spelling of Norwegian Li or Lie.
http://www.ancestry.com/facts/Lee-name-meaning.ashx -
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[quote]Originally posted by elindra:
Nothing to do with us Chinese la
1. English: topographic name for someone who lived near a meadow or a patch of arable land, Middle English lee, lea, from Old English lea, dative case (used after a preposition) of leah, which originally meant ‘wood’ or ‘glade’.
2. English: habitational name from any of the many places named with Old English leah ‘wood’, ‘glade’, as for example Lee in Buckinghamshire, Essex, Hampshire, Kent, and Shropshire, and Lea in Cheshire, Derbyshire, Herefordshire, Lancashire, Lincolnshire, and Wiltshire.
3. Irish: reduced Americanized form of Ó Laoidhigh ‘descendant of Laoidheach’, a personal name derived from laoidh ‘poem’, ‘song’ (originally a byname for a poet).
4.Americanized spelling of Norwegian Li or Lie.
http://www.ancestry.com/facts/Lee-name-meaning.ashx[/quot
thanks for your input -
Very cute lah..know a red haired american lass who has Tay alias
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You could also ask why people take on biblical names when they're agnostic/atheistic or pescribe to the ideals and practices of other religionsOriginally posted by Catknight:Hi..
I find out many americans using LIm, Tay and other surnames highlighted by the design forum here in SG...
What makes our surnames unique that angmohs wants to use them as alias online? -
wahahhahahahahhah
so suaku!! -
don't forget that "Lee" is also a chinese surname, as in Pamela Anderson Lee, Tommy Lee, etc.
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They are most probably Chinese-Americans.Originally posted by Catknight:Hi..
I find out many americans using LIm, Tay and other surnames highlighted by the design forum here in SG...
What makes our surnames unique that angmohs wants to use them as alias online? -
Lee is not just a Chinese surname.Originally posted by Nikar2:don't forget that "Lee" is also a chinese surname, as in Pamela Anderson Lee, Tommy Lee, etc. -
Lee is not just a Chinese surname.
i know, but it's derived from chinese-ness. -
Nah I think it's derived from Irish or Norweigian or something. A lot of the time it's spelt Leigh.Originally posted by Nikar2:i know, but it's derived from chinese-ness. -
XYZOriginally posted by de_middle:ABC -
who say derived from chinese or chinese-ness??Originally posted by Nikar2:i know, but it's derived from chinese-ness.
go google... origin of name LEE -
No it isn't. Please read up on the origins and genealogy of that name.Originally posted by Nikar2:i know, but it's derived from chinese-ness.