>>>Today I visited the website of Christof Lange, oh sorry, I mean Christof Wollenhaupt. Until today I thought it were two different persons, but it appears that he married two years ago and has changed his last name.
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>>>What puzzles me is that no one here has wondered how this is possible. As far as I'm aware of, there's no law that allows a man to change his last name when he gets married.
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>>>Christof, are you reading along?
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>>Is it only in GB that we call it the "surname"?
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>Lastname: 7.270.000 hits in Google
>Surname: 35.900.000 hits, so this one wins! :)

In France they have "nom" and "prenom". Seems strange as they usually precede the "prenom" with the nom, when addressing an envelope. Hence I's be:

Msr MCDONNELL Terry