Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 exptools 1/6/84; site ihuxq.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!ihuxq!amigo2 From: amigo2@ihuxq.UUCP (John Hobson) Newsgroups: net.women,net.kids Subject: Re: What's in a name? Message-ID: <614@ihuxq.UUCP> Date: Wed, 8-Feb-84 09:22:21 EST Article-I.D.: ihuxq.614 Posted: Wed Feb 8 09:22:21 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 10-Feb-84 01:56:57 EST References: <6816@watmath.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL Lines: 22 One solution that works fairly well (admittedly in a small population) to the probelm of what to do with last names of children is what they do in Iceland. Say that Lars and Olga have two children, a boy Nels nad a daughter Gertrud. Nels gets the name Nels Larsson and Gertrud is Gertrud Larssdottir. When Gertrud marries Jan Olafson, she retains the surname Larsdottir, and Jan and Gertud's children are either Janson or Jansdottir, depending on sex. Perhaps something could be set up so that you could pick the parent that you want to be son or daughter of. Except that then how do you deal with a newborn baby? One problem with hypenating last names is that in soon becomes unwieldy. There was an English admiral whose name was Sir Reginald Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax. John Hobson AT&T Bell Labs Naperville, IL (312) 979-0193 ihnp4!ihuxq!amigo2