User talk:2A00:23C6:4D85:3901:A4B2:FF31:D928:2C01

April 2023
Hello, I'm Skynxnex. I wanted to let you know that one or more of your recent contributions&#32;to Cruddas have been undone because they did not appear constructive. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. If you have any questions, you can ask for assistance at the Teahouse or the Help desk. Thanks. Skynxnex (talk) 15:01, 28 April 2023 (UTC)


 * Not to be confrontational, but I must say that your edits to the Cruddas page are unhelpful and misleading. There you have indicated that, "Cruddas is a surname in its own right...", which is quite true, and that, "...it is not a variant of the Scottish surname Carruthers", which is not true at all. Your thinking on this point goes astray in ignoring the fact that two entirely different families can have variants of the same name, or indeed, the same name. Nobody ever said that the "Cruddas" family and the Carruthers" family were either the same family or families related either socially or genetically, as you have indicated. Rather, that the two surnames are etymologically related, the one being a variant of the other. The fact is, the Scottish surnames Cruddas and Carruthers are related in a similar way that the Italian surnames Caruso and Carosi are, which is as being cognate words, and this does not mean that the Cruddas and Carruthers or the Caruso and Carosi families are either socially or genetically related to one another. Do you see the distinction between linguistic and social/genetic factors, which should be entirely clear? To say that Cruddas and Carruthers are variants of the same name only says something about the names as words, and says nothing about the families involved. If you need evidence of the fact that the names Carruthers and Cruddas (as well as Cruddace, Carradice, and others, are in fact all cognates, then see A Dictionary of Surnames by Hanks and Hodges (Oxford University Press, 1988), Cruddas on page 641 leading to the main Carruthers entry on page 96. Perhaps @Skynxnex can verify my assertions on this point? The page as you have left it appears (strangely) to argue against some unstated assertion, and so I will be attending to the page, and in so doing I will be sure to address your personal concerns therein, by making explicit note that the fact that the surnames are cognate, this fact should not be construed to indicate that the Cruddas and Carruthers families are related in any social or genetic manner. I hope that such measures will allay your concerns and make you happy with the page. Thank you. 144.121.24.154 (talk) 16:48, 24 October 2023 (UTC)