What is the origin of this surname?

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DIACON

― RoxyMuzak© (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 16:32 (nineteen years ago)

Venus?

― TS: Mick Ralphs vs. Ariel Bender (Dada), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 16:34 (nineteen years ago)

It's an insecticide from Bayer, so german?

― Jaq (Jaq), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 16:38 (nineteen years ago)

Fuck a surname.

― martin m. (mushrush), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 16:45 (nineteen years ago)

Independence from the Netherlands was granted in 1975. Five years later the civilian government was replaced by a military regime that soon declared a socialist republic. It continued to rule through a succession of nominally civilian administrations until 1987, when international pressure finally forced a democratic election. In 1990, the military overthrew the civilian government, but a democratically elected government returned to power in 1991.

― laurence kansas (lawrence kansas), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 16:51 (nineteen years ago)

Lock thread now

― TS: Mick Ralphs vs. Ariel Bender (Dada), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 16:51 (nineteen years ago)

i imagine this being pronounced "da-shawn"

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 04:00 (nineteen years ago)

dia beacon

― the enduring pueblo (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 04:17 (nineteen years ago)

Defense Intelligence Agency CON

its an alias for spooks. you're most likely being monitored roxy. the phones are probably tapped. you might be getting too close. too close to the truth.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 08:49 (nineteen years ago)

Joey Diacon's dog's deid

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 08:56 (nineteen years ago)

Italian "diacono" = English "deacon"

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 09:06 (nineteen years ago)

I thought it might be an "Americanization" of an "ethnic" name

― TS: Mick Ralphs vs. Ariel Bender (Dada), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 09:08 (nineteen years ago)

a province in Spain

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 12:10 (nineteen years ago)

It is a guy I met who has a band called DIAC0N PANTHRES and his last name is DIACON, but I know it's his actual name cause I net-stalked him and it's on his high school's site. Double :(

― RoxyMuzak© (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 12:19 (nineteen years ago)

at least you know he'd be a bad liar

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 12:31 (nineteen years ago)

a dire con, innit.

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 12:31 (nineteen years ago)

also, i like the way you google-proved one instance of diac0n but not the other.

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 12:32 (nineteen years ago)

it was for style!!!!

― RoxyMuzak© (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 12:55 (nineteen years ago)

So we've got Venusian, German, Netherlander, Italian, Spanish, and leet. Thanks.

― RoxyMuzak© (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 16:43 (nineteen years ago)

Diacon Alley

― C J (C J), Thursday, 20 April 2006 08:20 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=deacon&searchmode=none

O.E. deacon, from L. diaconus, from Gk. diakonos "servant of the church, religious official," lit. "servant."

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 20 April 2006 08:32 (nineteen years ago)

teh diacons were a powerful folk - they would probe all with their sniffers. they analyze scents and they like such things

― Mr Jones (Mr Jones), Thursday, 20 April 2006 10:27 (nineteen years ago)

apparently its brazilian

― RoxyMuzak© (roxymuzak), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:14 (nineteen years ago)

three years pass...

how did one come up with: onbekent (dutch for unknown but also misspelled)

some lady who sold jewellery in our shop. i hads to copy her id and noticed this.

― Nathalie (stevienixed), Thursday, 29 October 2009 20:47 (sixteen years ago)

immigration officer w/ bad spelling?

― Jaq, Thursday, 29 October 2009 20:50 (sixteen years ago)

Perhaps, her forebears spent some time exiled in France, where Dutch spelling skills are disdained? And they pretended to have amnesia?

― Aimless, Thursday, 29 October 2009 20:50 (sixteen years ago)

Medieval spelling? (Nederduits -> middelnederlands -> it's still Unbekannt in German?)

― StanM, Thursday, 29 October 2009 21:00 (sixteen years ago)

When was Dutch spelling standardized?

― l'homme moderne: il forniquait et lisait des journaux (Michael White), Thursday, 29 October 2009 21:04 (sixteen years ago)

1956 = last big "new spelling"

― StanM, Thursday, 29 October 2009 21:06 (sixteen years ago)

There have been a couple of changes since then, but the most drastic recent one was 1956 (human = mensch -> mens, e.g.)

― StanM, Thursday, 29 October 2009 21:10 (sixteen years ago)

But surely before their heyday in the 17th Century or soon after, they standardized what must have a been a collection of Western low German dialects into a national language with agreed upon grammar and spelling.

― l'homme moderne: il forniquait et lisait des journaux (Michael White), Thursday, 29 October 2009 21:14 (sixteen years ago)

From Wiki:

"A process of standardisation started in the Middle ages, especially under the influence of the Burgundian Ducal Court in Dijon (Brussels after 1477). The dialects of Flanders and Brabant were the most influential around this time. The process of standardisation became much stronger at the start of the 16th century, mainly based on the urban dialect of Antwerp. In 1585 Antwerp fell to the Spanish army: many fled to the Northern Netherlands, especially the province of Holland, where they influenced the urban dialects of that province. In 1637, a further important step was made towards a unified language, when the Statenvertaling, the first major Bible translation into Dutch, was created that people from all over the United Provinces could understand. It used elements from various, even Dutch Low Saxon, dialects but was predominantly based on the urban dialects of Holland."

― l'homme moderne: il forniquait et lisait des journaux (Michael White), Thursday, 29 October 2009 21:18 (sixteen years ago)

Oh, I see what standardisation means now. I was thinking about spelling only and especially "the spelling you'd recognise as the current one" but that's not quite it.

― StanM, Thursday, 29 October 2009 21:20 (sixteen years ago)

I read somewhere that Napoleon forced surnames on the dutch upon invading them. many dutch gave smartassed answers.

― Dynamic Leia Dress (kingkongvsgodzilla), Thursday, 29 October 2009 21:33 (sixteen years ago)

wikipedia says that one of the dutch surnames means "poopies".

― Dynamic Leia Dress (kingkongvsgodzilla), Thursday, 29 October 2009 21:36 (sixteen years ago)

Yeah, in 1811.

― l'homme moderne: il forniquait et lisait des journaux (Michael White), Thursday, 29 October 2009 21:43 (sixteen years ago)

Well, I was trying to provide a legitimate historical context for Jaq's suggestion:

immigration officer w/ bad spelling?

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― Dynamic Leia Dress (kingkongvsgodzilla), Friday, 30 October 2009 12:03 (sixteen years ago)

"I read somewhere that Napoleon forced surnames on the dutch upon invading them. many dutch gave smartassed answers."

hah! yeah, they found the idea (of surnames) ridiculous hence giving themselves silly surnames.

― Nathalie (stevienixed), Friday, 30 October 2009 19:08 (sixteen years ago)

Oh yeah I looked up my surname some time ago and apparently we come from ENGLAND. So that's why my English is good. :-)

― Nathalie (stevienixed), Friday, 30 October 2009 19:09 (sixteen years ago)

http://toyarchive.com/DiacloneOptimus1.jpg

If this is the origin of your surname, my hat is off to you!

― Philip Nunez, Friday, 30 October 2009 19:21 (sixteen years ago)

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