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Many double-barrelled names are written without a hyphen, causing confusion as to whether the surname is double-barrelled or not. Notable persons with unhyphenated double-barrelled names include politicians David Lloyd George (who used the hyphen when appointed to the peerage) and Iain Duncan Smith, composers Ralph Vaughan Williams and Andrew Lloyd Webber, military historian B. H. Liddell Hart ...
Here's why hyphenating last names may cause some issues. The post Technology creator explains reason not to hyphenate last names appeared first on In The Know.
A passport contains all names, but all except the surname are listed as first/given names. Names combined with a hyphen are counted as one name. A person named "Ulrika Britt-Inger Marie Fredriksson" has three first names and one last name, and this individual could choose to go by any of those three first names. [15]
The usual noun and adjective in English is patronymic, but as a noun this exists in free variation alongside patronym. [a] The first part of the word patronym comes from Greek πατήρ patēr 'father' (GEN πατρός patros whence the combining form πατρο- patro-); [3] the second part comes from Greek ὄνυμα onyma, a variant form of ὄνομα onoma 'name'. [4]
Bride reveals she and her fiancé will let their friends and family decide which last name they should use after their wedding
A new trend in the United States for Hispanics is to hyphenate their father's and mother's last names. This is done because American-born English-speakers are not aware of the Hispanic custom of using two last names and thus mistake the first last name of the individual for a middle name.
Here's why hyphenating last names may cause some issues. The post Technology creator explains reason not to hyphenate last names appeared first on In The Know.
Rather than choosing one of our existing last names or hyphenating, we created something new. Before I came out as a lesbian, I was sure I wouldn't adopt the last name of my future husband. I knew ...