Hi All, I have the Book Selected Tales Of Guy De Maupassant, Maupassant is French for Maupin, He was A French novelist and short story writer. Delores >From: "John & Linda Noel" <johnsong@harborside.com> >Reply-To: MAUPIN-L@rootsweb.com >To: MAUPIN-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: Re: [MAUPIN-L] Maupin - Moppen-Moppin >Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2000 20:54:16 -0800 > >Moppen looks like it might be a phonetic spelling variation of the French >pronunciation. >A French woman, about 45 years ago, addressed my mother as Mrs. Maupin and >pronounced Maupin as mo-peene. The woman was a nurse in a doctors office >and called into the waiting room for Mrs. Mo-peene. She repeated it >several >times because no one was responding and was even a little irritated about >it. Finally, Mom realized she must mean her and she did. (chuckle, >chuckle) >That was our first clue to a French pronunciation. >Linda Noel > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Leanna Veazy" <leanna@seark.net> >To: <MAUPIN-L@rootsweb.com> >Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2000 7:43 PM >Subject: [MAUPIN-L] Maupin - Moppen-Moppin > > > > Just for something to think about: You know the old fashioned calling >cards that people used to give out? Well I have a small collection of them >that belonged to my Great-Grandmother, who was a Maupin and one of them is >a >hand-made, or hand drawn card with the name as "Mr. Moppen". Not sure who >"Mr. Moppen" was, but I bet he was a relative somehow, and yet the name is >spelled different. AH,and yet another mystery........ Leanna > > > > > > ==== MAUPIN Mailing List ==== > > RootsWeb forbids posting of copyrighted material without permission of >the >author. Read RootsWeb's Acceptable Use Policy at > > <http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/aup.html> > > > > >==== MAUPIN Mailing List ==== >TO SUBSCRIBE OR UNSUBSCRIBE from any RootsWeb-hosted mailing list, >send an e-mail message with only the word SUBSCRIBE (or UNSUBSCRIBE) in the >subject and the body of the message to >[name of list]-L-request@rootsweb.com (for mail mode) or to >[name of list]-D-request@rootsweb.com (for digest mode). > _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.