Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site inuxd.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!ihnp4!inuxc!inuxd!ecs From: ecs@inuxd.UUCP (Eileen Schwab) Newsgroups: net.women,net.kids Subject: Re: What's in a name? Message-ID: <445@inuxd.UUCP> Date: Thu, 9-Feb-84 14:16:43 EST Article-I.D.: inuxd.445 Posted: Thu Feb 9 14:16:43 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 10-Feb-84 04:56:12 EST References: <6816@watmath.UUCP>, <614@ihuxq.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Consumer Products Div., Indianapolis Lines: 20 John Hobson suggested one solution to the problem of surnames based upon a custom in Iceland. If Lars and Olga have two children, the boy would have the surname "Larsson" and the girl would have the name "Larsdottir". This is just as bad as the current practice. Why are they the children of 'Lars', and not "Olgason" or "Olgadottir"? /\ /V V\ Eileen Schwab (my given name) / ^ ^ \ \______/ "Some like it HOT!" P.S. My husband and I decided that if we had any children, they would have his name. He is the last 'Nusbaum' in his family whereas I have three brothers who might pass on the name 'Schwab' to their children. Interestingly, his mother also kept her given name (for business reasons) when she married. Yet she objected to my not changing my name. All her children were given the name 'Nusbaum'.