[thechat] 2 simple US centric Q's

jcanfield at magisnetworks.com jcanfield at magisnetworks.com
Mon Jun 17 18:22:00 CDT 2002


> 2) Aesthetics.  Judah Michael McAuley sounds much better than
> Jocelyn Olivia Eckenberg.  And my family is predominantly
> Scottish anyway
> (Stuarts) so the name fit.
>
> I had the hardest time dealing with name change forms though.
>  People just didn't want to deal with the idea of a guy
> taking his wife's name.
>
> Judah

I think beaurocratic forms need to be ruffled once in a while.Wish I'da done
that. My wife likes my last name, 'Canfield' and it's a uniquely American
name, but I still prefer her maiden name, Burns. Then you and I would almost
match, Hebrew first name, Scottish last name.




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