[81191] in Cypherpunks
Re: May's Banal Rant
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Bradley)
Wed Jun 4 19:43:46 1997
Date: Tue, 3 Jun 1997 23:58:32 +0000 ( )
From: Paul Bradley <paul@fatmans.demon.co.uk>
To: Asgaard <asgaard@cor.sos.sll.se>
Cc: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
In-Reply-To: <Pine.HPP.3.91.970603194454.19822D-100000@cor.sos.sll.se>
Reply-To: Paul Bradley <paul@fatmans.demon.co.uk>
> *Why is it that people of finer (?) English heritage often has a double
> second name? Someone once suggested to me that it originates from having
> (or an ancestor having) adopted the name of both one's 'marital' father
> and one's biological father, for reasons of property inheritance, but
> I never believed that one. Just curious.
I believe historically this would not be the case, for obvious reasons of
reputation.
Today, a few English people take both their mothers and fathers names,
for example, a friend of mine is William Casson-Smith, of course, not all
names sound good like this, ie. Paul Bradley-Hemsley, interestingly they
only sound right if the second name has one less syllable than the first.
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