Where Does the Shorte Surname Come From?

Written in a baptism entry or a ship's list, Shorte usually leads back to Short. Read literally, Shorte points to “Short, small of stature”.

Other spellings include Schort and Shortt. Regional accents shaped spellings long before dictionaries fixed them. The extra “e” in Shorte is a spelling habit rather than a different name.

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