Re: Anthroponymy (was Re: Re: Laadan)

 --- Christophe Grandsire skrzypszy:

> > Wouldn't it have been easier for Irene and Freddy if she would have kept
> > her own name and he would have kept his, and the children would be named
> > after their mother? I mean, changing the law is quite a thing to do.
>
> But before that, the law *obliged* the wife to take the name of her husband.
Ah, I didn't know that.

> So whatever they wanted to do, they would have had to change the law if
> the wanted the name Curie to stay. Also, Frédéric wanted to wear the name
> Curie. After all, that was a name to be proud of and he wanted to have it
> too :))) . It's a case where the husband wanted to use the name of his
> wife :) .
I remember know: when a Dutch princess gets married, her husband would rather
take her name (it underlines him being part of the royal family). On the other
hand, the queen or princess would also add his name to her own string of names.

> > [...] Actually, I know only one such case, in which the husband had a
> > really horrible last name and replaced it with his wife's (IMO equally
> > horrible) name.
>
> LOL. I don't know yet what we're gonna do when Jan and I get married. We've
> toyed with the idea of taking each other's name along with our own, but
> whatever you do, Grandsire-Koevoets and Koevoets-Grandsire both sound rather
> strange ;))))) .
Hehe. I didn't even know that you can also take each other's names. But I
agree: both sound rather strange :) I think Jan Grandsire sounds better after
all than Christophe Koevoets. No offense to Jan of course. BTW My regards to
him.

Jan

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