>>>>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! :)
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>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:
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>Msr MCDONNELL Terry
The Japanese, Indians (in India) and the Hungarians also write their surname first. I find it often confusing. E.g. when I get an email from some guy (guy?) from India, like Chandramouli Subramanian who wrote below the email S.Chandramouli and later presented herself (she?) as Chandra.
The French try to make it a little bit clearer what part constitutes the surname. It is in upper case. But I only am aware of this since today. Ah, local habits...
Groet,
Peter de Valença
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