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The women I will marry later this year
Not sure if to be jealous or pity you
The women I will marry later this year
Not sure if to be jealous or pity you
I think it's generally reasonable although it will yield ridiculous results sometimes. Compound words have long been common in names in many places, including Britain, and cumbersome combinations generally get smoothed out into something more usable. It's a workable method. It's generally been used for the names of places and things rather than families, but it could be used for the names of families.
Double barreling is silly. It's only a couple of generations to an impractical number of family names and only 19 generations to over a million family names per person. It's like the classic fable of grains of rice on a chessboard - when you double at each step the numbers quickly become vast.
Interesting, I honestly hadn't realised it was a fairly common practice!
I think it's generally reasonable although it will yield ridiculous results sometimes. Compound words have long been common in names in many places, including Britain, and cumbersome combinations generally get smoothed out into something more usable. It's a workable method. It's generally been used for the names of places and things rather than families, but it could be used for the names of families.
Double barreling is silly. It's only a couple of generations to an impractical number of family names and only 19 generations to over a million family names per person. It's like the classic fable of grains of rice on a chessboard - when you double at each step the numbers quickly become vast.
Agreed it is just a name, and there are bigger things in life, but the sense of attachment to a name is important to some people, myself included.
surely you have a similar issue with both - assuming no one wants a triple or quadruple barrelled name then in either case you need to drop some information in each successive generation - with double barrelled name then that would be a whole name, with compounding then that is perhaps part of one (which could be the only part that was derived from a particular name)
Not sure if to be jealous or pity you
If they don't call their child Morgan, that's a missed opportunity.
For names of places and things, yes. It's one of the problems in etymology because the current name very often isn't the original. Scunthorpe, for example. "thorpe" is one of the many names used to indicate a settlement, but "scun" doesn't mean anything. It's not the original name. It was probably named after a person called Skuma or Skuna. Skuna's Thorpe --> Skunasthorpe --> Scunthorpe. Probably. It occurs often in words other than placenames too. "Midwife", for example, was originally "midwifman". Three Old english words made into a compound word - mid (with, connotation of support), wif (female) and man (person). Straightforward...and too cumbersome so in usage it was shortened and smoothed out.
As far as I know it wasn't a common practice in family names...but it could become one easily enough.