hyphenated last names
May. 23rd, 2003 11:10 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cellioIdle question:
Yesterday someone asked me if my husband and I have the same last name (we don't), and then asked why we didn't combine the names with a hyphen. We rejected that pretty much out of hand; I just don't care for it.
The practice has been around long enough that people who were born with hyphenated last names are now, potentially, marrying each other. I assume that no one hyphenates the hyphenated names, but I wonder what the most common practice is: keep your own, both take one set, or ditch all the hyphens in favor of something simpler?
Yesterday someone asked me if my husband and I have the same last name (we don't), and then asked why we didn't combine the names with a hyphen. We rejected that pretty much out of hand; I just don't care for it.
The practice has been around long enough that people who were born with hyphenated last names are now, potentially, marrying each other. I assume that no one hyphenates the hyphenated names, but I wonder what the most common practice is: keep your own, both take one set, or ditch all the hyphens in favor of something simpler?
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Date: 2003-05-23 10:48 am (UTC)http://216.239.57.100/search?q=cache:u_kY2KwhOcMJ:www.chicagotribune.com/features/columnists/advice/chi-0302190047feb19,0,1319892.column%3Fcoll%3Dchi-leisureadvice-col+miss+manners+hyphenated+last+name&hl=en&ie=UTF-8