I have a surname that is authentically Old English, but if spelled with an "e" at the end, becomes a surname that is more common in Ireland. One day at home, I received a phone call from someone with a distinct Irish accent, inquiring if I was Irish. I had to disappoint him. It turns out that he had just arrived from overseas and was looking through the phone book for a fellow Irishman, just to talk to. I felt badly for him. "I'm sorry, but my family comes from Lincolnshire."
I have a surname that is authentically Old English, but if spelled with an "e" at the end, becomes a surname that is more common in Ireland. One day at home, I received a phone call from someone with a distinct Irish accent, inquiring if I was Irish. I had to disappoint him. It turns out that he had just arrived from overseas and was looking through the phone book for a fellow Irishman, just to talk to. I felt badly for him. "I'm sorry, but my family comes from Lincolnshire."
Same. People always trying to add an E to the end of mine or jam a U in the middle of it.