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Originally Posted by GraceGuitars
Doh! Can't believe I did that. Sorry, fixed. 
Noticed yesterday that my dentist's office has my name listed as "John." I have been unsuccessful as of yet in getting out of paying the bill on that basis |
I'm not a name specialist but would suspect that "John" and "Jon" are derived from the same name.
In Chinese, Mao's name is pronounced differently and is not the same name at all.
For a lot of people in my situation, the spelling of our names was entirely made up when we moved to the western world. My grandfather, who spoke French fluently, even changed the spelling of his last name back in the 1940s -- decades before we were forced to leave by the local nationalists. "Lao" was entirely made up. There's nobody else in that country by that name.