I thought of this in the shower, then deleted it when someone in a discord I asked it to eventually said duh it’s Michael Jackson, and another replied Michael Jordan you dumbass … oof … but then while deleted it got upvotes somehow so whatever lol

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    Paul Ryan. But yeah probably not as known.

    Any ____son is a last name. FYI the etymology is son of Jack, son of ____.

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      Any ____son is a last name. FYI the etymology is son of Jack, son of ____.

      There’s something similar in Slavic languages with suffixes like -ovic, -ic, -icz, -ich, etc. So “Djokovic” means “little son of Djoko.”