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Re: Anthroponymy (was Re: Re: Laadan)

From:Muke Tever <mktvr@...>
Date:Friday, December 13, 2002, 15:41
> > a feminine version of your husband's personal name strikes me as a little > > exaggerated!!! It looks as if when the woman marries, she becomes a nobody > > who doesn't even need her own name but is 100% a part of her husband...
Well, English did it... it used to be that when Miss Mary Smith married Mr John Jones she was Mrs John Jones (tho still Mary by name). *Muke! -- http://www.frath.net/

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