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An earlier poster expressed concern about the sayability of a forename ending in S sliding into a lastname beginning with S.
I propose a rule based based on an extension of that concern: How does the proposed forename fit with the lastname?
There are a lot of examples here:
ethanwiner.com/funnames.html
[add the www dot stuff... I'm two posts to go before I am allowed to post links]
Most have been manufactured for humour, but I have met a few people who've actually had to carry the burden.
Applying the rule would involve testing the sound and the sight of the names in both their full, shortened and abbreviated forms.
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