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ABRAHAM AND DIRCK OP DEN GRAEFF.
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grotesque attempts at anglicization, which leave no traces of the original, obliterated their very names from the face of the earth.[1]

  1. For example: Bromberg has become Brownback, Bosshardt is now Buzzard, and Rieser, a giant, is changed into Razor.