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

From:<veritosproject@...>
Date:Thursday, October 27, 2005, 17:48
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 Is my information outdated, or just plain 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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