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From: gkloker@utai.UUCP (Geoff Loker)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Name Changes a case history
Message-ID: <671@utai.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 26-Aug-85 15:37:01 EDT
Article-I.D.: utai.671
Posted: Mon Aug 26 15:37:01 1985
Date-Received: Mon, 26-Aug-85 16:32:06 EDT
References: <314@tekla.UUCP> <4206@alice.UUCP>
Reply-To: gkloker@utai.UUCP (Geoff Loker)
Organization: CSRI, University of Toronto
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Summary: 

In article <4206@alice.UUCP> ark@alice.UucP (Andrew Koenig) writes:
>Suppose both spouses keep their names and hyphenate the kids.
>Said kids grow up and marry other similarly-hyphenated people.
>What do they name THEIR kids?
>
>Perhaps both spouses should choose a (shared) new surname
>when they marry?  Perhaps kids should choose a new (non-hyphenated)
>surname when they leave their parents?

England has been handling the problem of hyphenated last names for
generations, now.  When two hyphenated people marry, they each drop
one of the names in their hyphenated last name, and their new last
name is made up of the remaining last names.  (eg. -- Joe Blueblood-Snob
and Jane Uppercrust-Rich marry and become the Rich-Snob's.)  There is
some sort of formula for determining which names get dropped, and the
ordering of the names in the new last name.  I don't see any reason
why this system couldn't be used in the above case.

-- 
Geoff Loker
Department of Computer Science
University of Toronto
Toronto, ON
M5S 1A4

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