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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Double names for girls.[/quote]

I have a double name.  Hyphenated.  I didn't choose it.[/quote]

Well, nobody chooses their name. And people with double names aren’t bad. But it can sometimes (not always) be very much a class signifier for the parents.[/quote]

Funny, to me it’s very Catholic working-class, but that just shows my own bias.[/quote]

I'm with you on that. I also think of it as a Catholic working-class thing. [/quote]

The difference between Catholic working class double names and “I’m better than you” double names is that the former are made up of two first names that honor saints, and [b]the latter are made up of a classic first name plus an old family last name, lest anyone forget their provenance[/b]. [/quote]

Examples? Please and thank you.[/quote]

Lemme think... I live in the southern part of Virginia, so I might see names harkening back to prominent Virginia families of long ago: Mary Carter or Anne Randolph. And woe to the person who mistakenly refers to them as just “Mary” or “Anne”.[/quote]

Interesting. I wouldn’t have guessed that those were double names. [/quote]

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