The nick name for the name Enriqueta is Queta. So I changed it to Katy! :)


>>>>I see less and less spouses here in Quebec taking the name of the other spouse. My wife have kept her name and I've kept mine. My only daughter have my name (Tremblay is way too common here :), but if we had another child, he/she would surely have taken my wife name.
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>>>In most of Latin America, a wife basically keeps her own name. To this, she might sometimes add "de" + husband's name. "de" means "of" or "from", but it might also mean "belonging to", so, this might sound to some as if she were her husband's property...
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>>My wife is from Peru and her family is from Spain. Her name is Enriqueta Cristina Mendivil-Bojorequez de Whiteley. I call her Katy for short! :)
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>Where's the Katy come from? What are you, like royalty? Prince Charles's 2nd son, was christened Henry Charles Albert David Wales (or Windsor - not sure) yet the day they announced that they immediately said "but he will be known as Harry" - Go figure.
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>I think the "Harry" thing is an historical quirk (remember that Henry V referred to himself as Harry). When the Normans came over here, and introduced the name "Henri", the Saxon speaking peasants couldn't get their tongues around the rolling R, and nasal "en", so it was corrupted to Harry, although that is a dimuitive of Harold.