Example, Mr. and Mrs. John Smith

I hate this for the obvious reasons but it’s especially annoying to me because my wife didn’t take my surname!

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    26 days ago

    Quebec, makes things much simpler from a record keeping perspective

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      26 days ago

      Until you have kids, of course, when the parents must decide which name/combination of their names to give the child, and that combination is limited to only one hyphenation by law.

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        26 days ago

        At least the mother can give her name