Smith - Smythe - Smith
Unlike Betty I didn't keep my maiden name - it was just too complicated in a time when we still had Harold Wilson, they'd just elected Nixon and 'Major Tom' was still on the ground.
Changing names can be traumatic for a woman - Margaret Sandra decided to drop her surname altogether and found it nearly impossible.
It often seems that surnames aren't an issue until the couple has issue.
When teaching in the inner city, I was astonished to see a Gareth Prescott - Hutchinson on my tutor group list. Would he be like Lawrence Llewellyn Bowen or Tiggi Leg - Bourke?
Gareth turned out to be a likeable, dozy kid from Gorton whose parents just couldn't agree on a surname.
Nancy Banks - Smith said of Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall ... "He will kill and eat anything that is not actually running for a bus". Nancy (the one who writes the witty Corrie reviews for the Grauniad) is far from posh. I remember her writing about her dad (or grandad) who was a dustman.
There are some couples who should never be tempted to hyphenate.
And there's more here. KAZ
Labels: Hyphenation can be fun.
posted by KAZ at 10:20 am
28 Comments:
Can't believe those names were genuine but very funny indeed all the same!
I think Kevin Barr ought to make an honest woman out of you - the celebration could be entitled "Rock the Kaz Barr".
You could have married Mr Ualty or Mr Tration.
I hope that this helps.
I hyphenated once. The medics came and gave me oxygen and got better.
Couldn't the couple who were called Crapp-Beer have reached a compromise and changed their surname by deed poll to Carling or Heineken?
Murph:
I do hope you aren't doubting the integrity of my sources?
I've always wanted to hear someone say to me - 'Come with me to the Kaz Barr' ....in a sexy voice of course.
Vicus:
The choice of those names suggests that you know me well.
Rimshot:
I bet that oxygen made you 'high - phenated'.
Come down at once!
Betty:
Perhaps Will Carling and his wife used to be called Crapp - Beer.
He probably changed it to please Diana.
If the Hardy-Harrs were to get divorced, who would have the last laugh?
Carrying on from geoff's comment...........i wonder if people are ever called the same surname+christian names?
Richard Richards or James James?
Even better someone called,say,Adam Adam-Adams would be really Cool!You wouldnt know if they where Really-Really Posh or just had a bad stutter.............
I knew someone with the surname of Malarkey who married Mr Moon and then hyphenated to become Mrs Malarkey-Moon. Bizarre. But funny, yes.
I didn't know anyone with a double-barrelled name, until I started blogging. When I found out the real surnames of two of my readers, they turned out to sound awfully posh.
As I have no idea what the real names of most of my readers are, you may all be upper-class twits, for all I know.
I went from a three-part surname to a two-part surname when I married(*)
my paternal grandfather was a gas meter reader
(*neither of them is very amusing - but deed poll suddenly has its attractions)(as does a poll on my blog to see what I should go for)
Geoff:
'Hardy - Harr'!!
Tony:
There used to be a store in Liverpool called 'Owen Owen' apparently this was the name of the owner.
A friend of mine married a guy with the same surname - they could have hyphenated and started stuttering.
Nora:
Blimey! I bet the Malarkey - Moons had some jolly fun .. eh?
Dave:
Well I'm a bit of a twit.
View:
I didn't know you could really have a 3 part name.
Don't suppose it was Smith - Smythe - Smith was it?
I'll be over to vote in a minute.
did i ever tell you i went to college in Liverpool?
CF Mott........
Any relation to the Hoople?
Burnley, Withington, London, Hebden Bridge and Liverpool. You've seen life eh?
Not anonymous, actually NiC said:
It's the next generation that really have to worry...what if the Hardy-Harr's son marries the Crap-Beer's Daughter and they become the Crap-Beer-Hardy-Harrs?
Or the Hardy-Harr-Carp-Beers, I'm not sure which round it's supposed to go etiquette-wise.
One of our school governors, long ago and far away, was a Lady (something) Twistleton-Wykeham-Fiennes.
There's a couple of Fiennes fellows about now who are probably related.
NiC:
The mind boggles -
I think Crap-Beer-Hardy-Harr has a better flow.
Stitch:
The mind boggles again.
It's hard enough spelling my monosyllabic surname to someone in a call centre far away.
Whilst I was minding my own business at a Scandals resort last year, I could not help but notice that the Beaver Wetters had hooked up with the Best Lays and Wang Holders.
My word how the staff enjoyed themselves.
MPFC's Upper Class Twit of the Year sketch changed my life..I remember my sides aching from laughing so hard (I was about 13) and thinking this is the funniest thing in the world ever. Eat the Rich. These are my people.
I also decided that Brit 'humour' (OK some)was one million times more complex, highbrow, multi-layered, sarcastic, and intellectually stimulating because at the time American audiences still thought that some guy swearing was the zenith of artistic freedom.
Damn those zany, madcap, Puritans and their f%#$@*&g lingering stranglehold on the Colonial mindscape.
yeah, what HE said (get it?)
H.E.
I would just love to be complex, highbrow, multi layered and intellectually stimulating - sarcastic I can manage.
The Upper Class Twits did it for me too.
Rimshot:
HE says it so well ...and so do you!
whispers
I've got a hyphen
*runs away*
So you're the one of whom Dave spoke.
Was this before you wed Himself?
And if so - are you now triple barrelled?
I once knew a bloke called John Thomas.
I hope he married a gal called Fanny.
How can Ziggi still have her hyphen intact with all of that horeseback riding that she does?
As if!
Garfer:
Do you think that might need translating for transatlantic readers?
HE:
That gal has some questions to answer.
I've given her a shout!
what questions??? where?
From H.E. re hyphens and horseriding and Kaz (moi) re hyphens and names.
My sister hyphenated her name on marriage as she didn't want to be a plain Ann Evans, my female cousins did likewise. My family name is rather unusual, I've met 90 of all those born after 1810 who have or have had it.
If it wasn't so unusual I'd have followed Margaret Sandra's route and dropped it.
Am I right in thinking that the Welsh are a special case? Jones, Evans etc.
I think Margaret Sandra might have succeeded if she hadn't been quite so inflexible.
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