Like a weather-beaten tree, the genealogy of their progeny encountered tremendous changes when going through many centuries, differentcountries, dynasties and political hurricanes.Couple of years agoHashim Zeyan made a shocking discovery when researching his obscured ancestry.His surname buried by the Kandiyan progenyhas surfaced misspelled when unearthed as Ziyaan and hadcontinued since then up to the 21stcentury.The namehas duly rectifiedby Hashim Zeyan recently after cross checking with the family history. Accumulated evidences suggested theculprit couldbe a Singhalese grammar dictum known as Poorvaswara Lopa Sandhiya, which allowstongue twisting words effortlessly pronounceable by omitting and substituting letters within the words in question.