the ski means barnaba in polish names.
the ski means barnaba in polish names.
what does the ski mean in polish names?
barnaba
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polish americans often downplayed their ethnicity and changed their names to fit into american society. during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, name changes were commonly done by immigration agents at ellis island. an example of this is in the family of edmund muskie, whose polish surname was marciszewski. during the 1960s and 1970s, an unprecedented number of poles voluntarily chose to anglicize their own names. in detroit alone, over 3,000 of the areas' 300,000 polish americans changed their names every year during the 1960s. americans took no effort to respect or learn the pronunciation of polish last names, and poles who made it to positions of public visibility were told to anglicize their own names. many people, according to linguist john m. lipski, "are convinced that all polish names end in "" and contain difficult consonant clusters." although "very little is known about the psychological parameters," lipski speculates about reasons for mispronunciation; for example, he found that english speakers consistently mispronounced his two syllable surname, "lipski", because, he speculates, an emotion based "inherent ethnolinguistic 'filtering mechanism' rejects" a simple two-syllable sequence when there is an expectation that all polish names are "unpronounceable." in areas with no significant slavic populations such as houston, texas, lipski found mispronunciations were nonexistent. lipski experienced mispronunciations often in toledo, ohio, and alberta, canada, where there were greater slavic populations, which he believed was an example of unconscious prejudice. with little tolerance for learning and appreciating polish last names, americans viewed poles who refused to change their names as unassimilable greenhorns. even more common, polish american children quickly changed their first names to american versions (mateusz to matthew, czeslaw to chester, elzbieta to elizabeth, piotr to peter). a 1963 study based on probate court records of 2,513 polish americans who voluntarily changed their last names share a pattern; over 62% changed their names entirely from the original to one with no resemblance to the polish origin (examples include: "czarnecki" to "scott", "borkowski" to "nelson", and "kopacz" to "woods"). the second-most common choice was to subtract the polish-sounding ending (ex: ewanowski to evans, adamski to adams, dobrogowski to dobro), often with an anglicized addition (falkowski to falkner, barzyk to barr). these subtractions and anglicized combinations were roughly 30% of cases. it was very rare for a name to be shortened with a polish-sounding ending (ex: niewodomski to domski, karpinski to pinski, olejarz to jarz), as such examples accounted for less than .3% of cases.
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