In message <428DB4ED.4030703_at_pacific.net.sg>, Erich Dollansky writes: >> >> In Iceland it is very uncommon to have family names as such. You usually >> take your father's name and add "sonur" if you're a boy, or "dóttir" if >> you're a girl. Your name does not change in marriage, and your whole > >This is also true for some parts of India. The 'family' name of the >children is the father's first name. It used to be that way in Denmark, with the added twist that the firstborn son was named after his paternal grandfather. Any high-school student can see that this in the majority of cases leads to one of two patterns: Peter Larsen Peter Petersen Lars Petersen Peter Petersen Peter Larsen Peter Petersen Lars Petersen Peter Petersen ... ... In 1828 the king decreed that this had to stop and families should carry "a proper and unchanging familyname", but since one could only change familyname with royal approval that basically cemented the fact that the majority of Denmark is called ".*sen" Anyway, this has what to do with FreeBSD ? -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk_at_FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.Received on Fri May 20 2005 - 08:23:05 UTC
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