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How your surname affects your life prospects
Abrahams? Atkins? Arnold? Stephen Fry reflects on why we remember old classmates whose surnames occur at the beginning of the alphabet. According to a professor of economics at Colorado University, the initial of your surname (if you're a man) may affect your life chances. The nearer A you are, the better. The professor鈥檚 surname is Zax.
First broadcast on Fry's English Delight, 6 August 2019.
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