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From: joe@fluke.UUCP (Joe Kelsey)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Family Surnames
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Date: Thu, 29-Sep-83 12:41:02 EDT
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In my circle of friends, we often "combine" the last names of married
or "paired" couples into an affectionate "nickname" which we use when
referring to them as a couple.  For instance, my last name (Kelsey)
combines well with my wife's (Terreberry) to form Kelseyberry.  Others
would be: combining Dill and Comerford into Dillford, etc.  We only do
this informally, but it's not a bad idea if your name is too long to
hyphenate.

One thing I have always wondered - if two people with hyphenated names
married, would they hyphenate their already hyphenated names into one
with four hyphens?!  This is a problem we will have to face sooner or
later if this trend toward hyphenation continues! :-)

/Joe