While on this point, I remember our old school principal, Fr Vincent Gomes de Catao, emphasising that the school's name was not "St Britto's High School" but "St Britto High School" (without the apostrophe/possessive). But, if my schoolboy memory serves me right, the point he was making was just that the name of an institution cannot be changed, and it should be properly addressed. (It's St Britto.)
The oddest experience I had was when my surname once got changed to an "en" ending in Finland, for reasons I was probably too distracted to fathom out. Of course, these are cultural differences. Many Westerners, for instance, get thrown off-balance by Indian male names that end with an "a". But who should be complaining most loudly? I regret not responding earlier when my name was abbreviated to "Fred" simply because that was the email identity I chose to use (in days when our email systems was Unix-driven, and we couldn't choose anything-above-eight-alphabet logins). Of course, I could be wrong on some of the assumptions made above, and am open to correction. FN On 23/12/06, Cornel DaCosta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
What it implies and ever so obviously, is that an association with the saint's name is used for the school/college. Likewise, across the world, there are many thousands of names of saints for streets, buildings, churches, schools, colleges and even fashion stores!
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