hassle> I also don't know why more couples don't change names at all.
double-barrelled> not if you pick a completely new name. This would of course have to be banned in America or you'd get far too many Honeypies and Snookumses.
Surely the right answer there is to outlaw excessive cuteness! It would be an intolerable blow to freedom to ban a practice which merely could be used for excessive cuteness but which had significant non-infringing uses.
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Re: marriage
Date: 2004-08-06 09:00 am (UTC)Also, tends to produce unwieldy double-barrelled names...
Re: marriage
Date: 2004-08-06 09:02 am (UTC)double-barrelled> not if you pick a completely new name. This would of course have to be banned in America or you'd get far too many Honeypies and Snookumses.
Re: marriage
Date: 2004-08-06 09:10 am (UTC)Oh, er, hang on, we are talking about the USA...