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Bain or Bains is an English, French, Punjabi and Scottish surname. It may also be a variant form of a German surname. It may also be a variant form of a German surname. Bains shares many of the origins of the surname Baines .
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The Middle English bayn, beyn and the Old Norse beinn meant 'straight' or 'direct', which may have become a nickname. [1] The Middle English bayne (and French bain ) meant 'bath'. This may have become an occupational surname for an attendant at a public bath.
Katie Garapic realized she may be mispronouncing her Croatian last name while watching the Olympics. Athletes from the neighboring Serbia spelled their names "-ić," which implies a "-ch" sound at ...
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This is a set of lists of English personal and place names having spellings that are counterintuitive to their pronunciation because the spelling does not accord with conventional pronunciation associations. Many of these are degenerations in the pronunciation of names that originated in other languages.