{"id":880,"date":"2008-10-05T20:22:59","date_gmt":"2008-10-05T19:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.widmann.org.uk\/?p=880"},"modified":"2008-10-05T20:22:59","modified_gmt":"2008-10-05T19:22:59","slug":"mixed-surnames","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/mixed-surnames\/","title":{"rendered":"Mixed surnames"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Kohlmann<\/a>
Kohlmann Bakery in Mannheim. By jtcoleman<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Thinking about surname equality<\/a>, the problem with giving a child both parents’ names is that they’ll get really long after a few generations. I mean, Buchanan-Widmann<\/i> sounds nice, but if Anna’s children were to be called Buchanan-Widmann-Fern\u00e1ndez-Markovi?<\/i> or similar, things would get a bit silly.<\/p>\n

So Phyllis and I discussed an alternative today: People could mix their surnames. If this had been introduced when our grandparents married, it would have worked as follows.<\/p>\n

Gro\u00dfmutter (n\u00e9e Kohler) and Gro\u00dfvater (Widmann) could have called their kids either Wider<\/i> or Kohlmann<\/i>. Idith (n\u00e9e J\u00f8rgensen) and Otto (Nielsen) could have called their daughters J\u00f8rsen<\/i> or Nielgensen<\/i>. If my parents had turned out to be Kohlmann and Nielgensen, I could have been Kohlgensen<\/i> or Nielmann<\/i>.<\/p>\n

Phyllis’s Gramps (Stirling) and Granny (n\u00e9e Henderson) would have called Ann either Stirson<\/i> or Henderling<\/i>, and her Granda (Buchanan) and grandmother Phyllis (n\u00e9e Crosbie) would have called Dougie either Buchie<\/i> or Crosanan<\/i>, so if they had chosen Henderling and Buchie, Phyllis would have been either Henderie<\/i> or Buchling<\/i>.<\/p>\n

And so, if I had been Nielmann and Phyllis had been Buchling, Anna would have been either Buchmann<\/i> or Nielling<\/i>.<\/p>\n

A cool solution, isn’t it? \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thinking about surname equality, the problem with giving a child both parents’ names is that they’ll get really long after a few generations. I mean, Buchanan-Widmann sounds nice, but if Anna’s children were to be called Buchanan-Widmann-Fern\u00e1ndez-Markovi? or similar, things would get a bit silly. So Phyllis and I discussed an alternative today: People could mix their surnames. If this had been introduced when our grandparents married, it would have worked as follows. Gro\u00dfmutter (n\u00e9e Kohler) and Gro\u00dfvater (Widmann) could have called their kids either Wider or […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94,159,113],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-en","category-humour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}