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- From: kapa@cbnewsc.cb.att.com (k.a.perkins)
- Subject: Re: A Question...
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- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 16:56:49 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.165649.9508@cbnewsc.cb.att.com>
- Summary: unusual names
- References: <106120@netnews.upenn.edu> <1jppk2INN9b3@shelley.u.washington.edu>
- Keywords: last names
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- In article <1jppk2INN9b3@shelley.u.washington.edu>, webers@stein.u.washington.edu (Sandra Weber) writes:
- > pezzillo@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Amy J. Pezzillo) writes:
- >
- > >Here's a question that I'd like people's opinions on: What do you
- > >think about the practice of a woman taking the man's last name when
- > >they get married?
- >
- > Personally, it would depend on the guy's last name...my current SOs last
- > name is pretty interesting, and mine's pretty boring in comparison, so I
- > wouldn't mind taking his at all.
- My 2 best friends took their husband's names when they married.
- One hated her own last name - it was hard for strangers to pronounce
- and spell, etc, and she liked his better. They got divorced and she's
- back to her birth name.
-
- The other was a disappointment to me. Her birth name is Galipeau, which
- is unusual and (I think) very pretty. Her husband's name is Johnson,
- which is pretty common, so I was sorry to see her lose Galipeau in favor
- of that, but so it goes. She said recently that when she was in grade
- school, there was a girl with the same first name as hers whose last
- name was Johnson whom she never liked and so it wasn't too thrilling
- to share a name with her.
-