Altered Spanish and Foreign Surnames
These surnames were altered as time changed, Filpino Americans and other Filipinos having half of their foreign sanguinity in the Philippines altered their names to look and sound it Spanish-derived, to conform in Spanish naming convention, or for no reason.
Examples are:
- Alcabasa (Spanish "El cabeza")
- Malferari (Italian Malferarri)
- Marfori (Italian Marforri)
- Monfort (American/British "Mountfort")
- Nery (from Neri, Anglicized)
- Galorport (from Portogalera or English Galore Port)
- Gituaban (Spanish Getuavan)
- Pemonte (from Italian or Spanish Piemonte)
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Famous quotes containing the words altered, spanish and/or foreign:
“The movies were my textbooks for everything else in the world. When it wasn’t, I altered it. If I saw a college, I would see only cheerleaders or blonds. If I saw New York City, I would want to go to the slums I’d seen in the movies, where the tough kids played. If I went to Chicago, I’d want to see the brawling factories and the gangsters.”
—Jill Robinson (b. 1936)
“Ferdinand De Soto, sleeping
In the river, never heard
Four-and-twenty Spanish hooves
Fling off their iron and cut the green,
Leaving circles new and clean
While overhead the wing-tips whirred.”
—Mark Van Doren (1894–1973)
“If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms—never—never—never!”
—William Pitt, The Elder, Lord Chatham (1708–1778)