Re: Offlist: Re: Anthroponymics -- Brazilians have more than one surname? How are they assigned?

Watch my gmail!
I don't know how kids get their names, but when a woman gets married
she keeps her name.

On 10/27/05, Larry Sulky <larrysulky@...> wrote:
> On 10/27/05, veritosproject@gmail.com <veritosproject@...> wrote:
> > Watch my reply-to--I have gmail.
> >
> > In the US: Usually if it's the mother's name they're trying to make a
> > statement (i.e. feminists).  Otherwise, the most common is the
> > father's name or both hyphenated.  In Iceland: Almost everyone keeps
> > their own surname, and the children usually get the father's surname.
> >
> I thought that in Iceland they used patronymics in place of surnames.
> "Berg Innarsson and Anna Innarsdottir", or something like that (I'm
> just making up those names). Is my information outdated, or just plain
> wrong?
>

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