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Re: May's Banal Rant
> *Why is it that people of finer (?) English heritage often has a double
> second name? Someone once suggested to me that it originates from having
> (or an ancestor having) adopted the name of both one's 'marital' father
> and one's biological father, for reasons of property inheritance, but
> I never believed that one. Just curious.
I believe historically this would not be the case, for obvious reasons of
reputation.
Today, a few English people take both their mothers and fathers names,
for example, a friend of mine is William Casson-Smith, of course, not all
names sound good like this, ie. Paul Bradley-Hemsley, interestingly they
only sound right if the second name has one less syllable than the first.
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