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- Mar 26, 2012
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No matter how you spell it, or what country origin is claimed, after 132 years, the Thomas J Beale character has never been positively as an actual flesh and blood person.https://www.ancestry.com/name-origin?surname=beal
Old English beag ‘ring’, here probably used in the sense ‘river bend’, or an unattested personal name Beaga derived from this word + halh ‘nook’, ‘recess’. French (Béal): topographic name for someone who lived by a mill race, from the Lyonnaise dialect term béal, bezale, bedale (of Gaulish origin). Americanized spelling of German Biehl or Bühl (see Buehl).
"you say tomato, I say tomato, lets call the whole thing off"