Poor Mr Hunt. Wouldn't you be tempted to change your name legally rather than live with constant ridicule?

It would be interesting to know the origin of some names like my old high school teachers Mr Longbottom and Mrs Lillecrappe.

Perhaps Longbottom derived from a long line of tailoring families or Lillecrappe...no on that one I'm lost.

Mind you I was once tempted to name my girls botanically, choices being - Rose, Sage, Lily, or Willow.

That's what impressed me so much about him, Pelican.

>>Poor Mr Hunt. Wouldn't you be tempted to change your name legally rather than live with constant ridicule?<<

By meeting the challenge head-on, he made it other people's problem, rather than his own. And in doing so, made ridicule impossible.

The (unspoken, I have to say) subtext was "Hey, it's my name. Deal with it".

Posted by Severin, Friday, 26 February 2010 2:13:42 PM:



"She wouldn't hear of keeping her own surname
and eventually she did become Mrs Robyn Hood."



Evidently she was of the Marion kind, after all.

Did people start referring to her in Freudian slips as Marion, after her marriage, Severin? Just curious. And apologies for unintentionally decapitalising your new userID on david f's topic yesterday.

It all comes down to moving with the times. Many members of earlier generations of women may have felt the need to make a symbolic gesture, that reminded people that they weren't their husband's property. In 2010, attitudes towards marrage have changed sufficiently to make this symbolic gesture look petty.

'In 2010, attitudes towards marrage have changed sufficiently to make this symbolic gesture look petty.'

Hmmm, could that be expanded to encapsulate much much more feminist doctrine. I think you better have a word to pynchme.

Houllie

Would having an argument with Pynchme over this issue be petty? I doubt that Pynchme would get too fired up, that would be more SJF's style. Think twice before posting in praise of pettiness, that would be a predictable Houllie response.