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Re: PLEASE READ: Polish surnames with -ski
Agreed! Some polish names might also spell it differently. My girlfriend's username ends in -cki, which I've learned is actually the name element as -ski supposedly? But the family has an anglicized pronunciation where the ck acts as it would in an English word.
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The suffix -cki is the result of a name ending in -t whereby the combination -tski is changed to -cki in the spelling.
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Fascinating! 😮
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