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Originally Posted by Elphaba
Hubby hyphenated my name without asking. Uh, no thanks...I'll keep my maiden name and you can keep your maiden name.
Had we spawned, however, I would have followed the European tradition of having my last name as the child's middle name (no hyphenation). Poor kid had that happened. 
...and baraka guru is correct. |
That's what I'm going to do to my kids...really. I'm planning on changing my name to [first name][middle name][maiden name][married name].
My brother's middle name is my mother's maiden name. I was going to have her maiden name added to my middle names when I was younger but never got around to it. It will probably be the middle name of one of my children, because my mother only has sisters.
Yes, this is more of an etiquette question than a grammar question, as none of the grammar or writing classes I've had to take (and as an English major I've had to take more than a few) have dealt with this subject. I think the only class that
might mention this is business writing or technical writing, both of which teach students how to draft business-oriented correspondence.
And cynthetiq is correct.