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Originally Posted by TripletDaddy
I was going to say something, but wanted to give these folks credit for at least being influenced by the Smashing Pumpkins.
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You're both wrong and so is Austen. Darcy is obviously of French derivation, where De is used to indicate origin, as in de = from. Wonderful Mr. Darcy is from Arcy, or at least his ancestors were, but because De ends in a vowell and Arcy starts with one, they are properly abbreviated so: D'arcy. Being some sort of nouveau riche trying to hide from his heritage, he obviously dropped the apostrophe. I was merely trying to help he and Austen out, but you two just couldn't let it rest.
In fact, Arcy is the location of one of the knights Templar temples in Picardie in France. See:
http://www.ordotempli.org/picardie.htm Perhaps this is no coincidence?