In article <5lf1m1$gpp@bcrkh13.bnr.ca>, mvirch@bnr.ca (Mitchell Virchick) wrote: > >Anybody have a clue as to what the surname suffix "chick", >which I've seen alternately spelled "chek", "chik", "czyk", >"cek", and possibly even "sk", with perhaps a circumflex over >the "s"? Does this have a literal meaning? It's an ending >you see in a lot of Slavic names. grammatical diminutive Paul JK. -- Know what's weird? Day by day nothing seems to change, but pretty soon everything is different.