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In article <5d98ca02-1b08-4e93-8be3-e18db8511734@googlegroups.com>,
Peter Trei  <petertrei@gmail.com> wrote:
>On Monday, July 16, 2018 at 5:23:52 PM UTC-4, Robert Carnegie wrote:
>> On Monday, 16 July 2018 22:08:31 UTC+1, Ted Nolan <tednolan>  wrote:
>> > In article <pByz4u.1069@kithrup.com>,
>> > Dorothy J Heydt <djheydt@kithrup.com> wrote:
>> > >In article <35369663-9f51-44b2-bbba-2ca463bd4bec@googlegroups.com>,
>> > >Peter Trei  <petertrei@gmail.com> wrote:

>> > >>I know a young couple who delight in the name Zyxnfrx.
>> > >
>> > >Did they (either of them) inherit that name, or did they decide
>> > >"Well, making one take the other's name is old-fashioned and
>> > >sexist, and hyphens are awkward, let's just make up a new joint
>> > >name"?  I knew at least one young young couple who did that.  But
>> > >they chose something like Moonbeam or Morninglory.  It was, after
>> > >all, the sixties.
>> > 
>> > To me it looks like one of them is Zyx and the other Frx.
>> 
>> Le Frx, c'est Zyx.
>
>The two of them made the name up - their pre-marriage names were much more
>mundane.

Like those two I mentioned upthread.

Then there's the saga of how my son and daughter-in-law dealt
with name change,

Are you all sitting comfortably?

Then I'll begin.

Note: I'm using real names here.

My son was christened David Ravn Heydt.  (Ravn being part of the
surname of his father's maternal grandfather, Jo/rgen Jensen
Ravn-Jo/rgensen.)

In his teens he decided that he was tired of being named David;
everybody and his cousin David was named David.  By that time he
was active in the SCA (so were all of us), and his medieval name
was Tristan av Ravnsborg.  So he started calling himself Tristan,
and we all obliged.  Tris for short.

After going through the usual succession of girl friends in his
twenties (who to my eyes all looked alike: small, dark-haired,
and full of Attitude), he settled on one and they got engaged.

Her name was Erika Fitton, but she was an actress and had chosen
to use her mother's maiden name as her stage name: Erika Salazar.
(Some of her family had come from Colombia a generation or two
ago.)  She had wanted for some time to change it legally, but
there was a fee and she didn't have the money.

"No sweat," said Tris.  "I have the money; I'll change MY name to
Salazar and then when we get married, all you'll have to do is
fill out a form."

(He did ask us if we minded.  We didn't.)

So now he's legally Tristan Ravn Salazar, and it was all fine
except then they moved to New York and when he got a job there,
he had to document his name change, and Hal had to go to the San
Francisco records office and get the documentation.  No problem.

They have a son now, Ydris Ravn Salazar, and they spell it with a
Y instead of the usual I, because they didn't want him to have
IRS as initials and freak people out.

-- 
Dorothy J. Heydt
Vallejo, California
djheydt at gmail dot com

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new end book on my shelves Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2018-07-12 23:03 -0500
  Re: new end book on my shelves Kevrob <kevrob@my-deja.com> - 2018-07-12 21:26 -0700
    Re: new end book on my shelves Ahasuerus <ahasuerus@email.com> - 2018-07-12 21:38 -0700
      Re: new end book on my shelves Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2018-07-13 13:55 -0500
        Re: new end book on my shelves Richard Hershberger <rrhersh@gmail.com> - 2018-07-13 13:25 -0700
          Re: new end book on my shelves Ahasuerus <ahasuerus@email.com> - 2018-07-13 13:44 -0700
            Re: new end book on my shelves ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>) - 2018-07-13 20:48 +0000
            Re: new end book on my shelves Jibini Kula Tumbili Kujisalimisha <taustinca@gmail.com> - 2018-07-13 14:29 -0700
          Re: new end book on my shelves Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2018-07-13 15:59 -0500
          Re: new end book on my shelves D B Davis <g@crcomp.net> - 2018-07-13 23:26 +0000
  Re: new end book on my shelves tonynance17@gmail.com - 2018-07-13 03:59 -0700
    Re: new end book on my shelves Kevrob <kevrob@my-deja.com> - 2018-07-13 11:02 -0700
    Re: new end book on my shelves Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2018-07-13 13:53 -0500
  Re: new end book on my shelves djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2018-07-14 05:25 +0000
    Re: new end book on my shelves Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2018-07-15 14:27 -0500
      Re: new end book on my shelves djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2018-07-15 20:34 +0000
  Re: new end book on my shelves David DeLaney <daviddelaney@earthlink.net> - 2018-07-15 13:34 -0500
    Re: new end book on my shelves Kevrob <kevrob@my-deja.com> - 2018-07-15 12:04 -0700
      Re: new end book on my shelves Lawrence Watt-Evans <misenchantedpress@gmail.com> - 2018-07-15 23:29 -0400
        Re: new end book on my shelves William Hyde <wthyde1953@gmail.com> - 2018-07-15 21:55 -0700
          Re: new end book on my shelves Peter Trei <petertrei@gmail.com> - 2018-07-16 08:35 -0700
            Re: new end book on my shelves djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2018-07-16 17:26 +0000
              Re: new end book on my shelves ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>) - 2018-07-16 21:08 +0000
                Re: new end book on my shelves Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@excite.com> - 2018-07-16 14:23 -0700
                Re: new end book on my shelves Peter Trei <petertrei@gmail.com> - 2018-07-17 05:11 -0700
                Re: new end book on my shelves djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2018-07-17 16:09 +0000
          Re: new end book on my shelves Lawrence Watt-Evans <misenchantedpress@gmail.com> - 2018-07-16 13:05 -0400
            Re: new end book on my shelves D B Davis <g@crcomp.net> - 2018-07-16 18:15 +0000
            Re: new end book on my shelves David DeLaney <daviddelaney@earthlink.net> - 2018-07-18 07:51 -0500
        Re: new end book on my shelves Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@excite.com> - 2018-07-16 13:42 -0700
          Re: new end book on my shelves scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2018-07-16 20:54 +0000

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