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From: amigo2@ihuxq.UUCP (John Hobson)
Newsgroups: net.women,net.kids
Subject: Re: What's in a name?
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Date: Wed, 8-Feb-84 09:22:21 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb  8 09:22:21 1984
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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
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