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Some couples are always X & Y. Other couples are always Y & X. And some are ambidextrous, as it were. I keep wondering why that is. Who you know first? Who you know better? (Who you're related to?) Shorter name (in syllables) first? Is it partly situational? The one with a title first? Or just an elusively-defined "it sounds better that way"? (For bi-gender couples: Always man first? Always woman first?)
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Date: 2004-10-15 06:08 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-10-15 06:10 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-10-15 06:52 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-10-15 06:59 am (UTC)Of course, this leads to the question of what happens when two hyphenated-last-name people marry: further hyphenation? Pick two? Keep separate names? (and let people call you "the Smithjonesplatypusdonuts"?)
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Date: 2004-10-15 07:19 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-10-15 08:25 am (UTC)We do that - the Pinkus family become the Pinki (not that we know any Pinki (though some of my coworkers have had it over the years), but the rule applied for other -us names), etc.
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Date: 2004-10-15 08:35 am (UTC)-us –> -i, not to be confused with –ae, which would be for a female couple, I suppose :-).