>So you're the son of Mr Year and Miss Wood?

Nope. Its origin is weirder than that! ;)

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>How about me? Should my kids be called "Mc-McDonnell"?

If there is some meaning to Mc as in son of, then after a few generations it would be pretty weird. McMcMcMcMcDonnell-McMcMcDonald! ;)

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>>This changing of names has got to stop. :) If not, then we should all be barcoded with a GUID! ;)
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>>Hyphenating last names is bad. Think of the poor children. I had a male teacher that married and adopted the hyphenated lastname Mock-Harrington. Is that anything like mock chicken? http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1463327
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>>What happens when a child of the Mock-Harringtons marries a child of the Something-Nosonovskys? The poor child will have chronic writer's cramp before grade 2!
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>>Maybe we should find a person with the last name Just and another with the last name Married, then have them get a custom license plate. Everywhere they go people will throw rice, drink champagne, honk car horns and tie tin cans to their bumper!