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[quote=Anonymous]I have three young adults with hyphenated names. The only technical problems have been with airline frequent flyer accounts (which don’t matter much now). SATs etc were fine. We all get tired of having to spell things out on the phone. Four syllables, 10-15 letters, easily pronounceable, but still a little bit of a pain. Back in the day I couldn’t deal with what seemed to me to be supporting institutionalized patriarchy if automatically using the dad’s name alone. Flipping a coin would have been okay with me (but I suppose DH’s parents would have minded if I “lost”). They are legal adults and often discuss dropping the first half (my name). Nobody has lifted a finger yet tho. I think it’s cool that they are the only people on earth with their name. I’m also amused by the fact that their hyphenated UK origin (sounding) names sound either lefty-liberal OR hoitsy-toitsy OR African-American to different people. [/quote]
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