From: Paul Bradley <paul@fatmans.demon.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 5 Jun 1997 05:48:14 +0800
To: Asgaard <asgaard@cor.sos.sll.se>
Subject: Re: May's Banal Rant
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> *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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