> From: Lalith Vipulananthan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Anyway, regarding the name thing, I was given three Christian names in > addition to my ridiculously long surname. Much as I'm into > the preservation > of family name and all, I can see my sister's semi-joking > desire to marry > someone Chinese.
I, on the other hand, have an extremely short name. Only two syllables if you don't include my middle name. One of my brothers, who also has a single syllable first and last name, used to jokingly say he was going to name is firstborn "Jebediah Zechariah Horn" just so he'd have a multiple syllable name. Fortunately, he only had girls. We gave our kids hyphenated names. My name is "Horn", my wife is "Cleaver", the kids are "Cleaver-Horn". It's worked fairly well, if confusing a lot of my daughter's friends parents. And my daughter was the only kid in her preschool class who knew what a hyphen was! Ah, the added benefits! (BTW, you can see some, not so up-to-date pics of them at our website of http://www.cleaver-horn.com.) We figure when they grow up and get married they can decide what to do with their names at that point. If you don't mind my asking, Lalith, where does your name come from? It is quite a mouthful. - jmh _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
