Do you prefer to hyphenate?
This question needs more context.Honestly though, most of the time.Obviously there are many words where hyphenating would be bizarre such as..every-dayto-morrowFri-dayRecently I was very annoyed when I got my thesis back from the editors telling me I have to do all of these things to graduate:The way my university edited ‘pro-drop’ to ‘prodrop’ annoys me immensely. No linguist on the planet writes ‘prodrop’ without a dash. That is just ugly looking.
How does a man end up with a hyphenated name?
I understand a woman keeping her name and using a hyphen when she gets married. If she has a child with the guy she married would not the child's last name be that of the guy she married? (Unwed mothers do not apply because there is no need for the hyphen)
Which endings to hyphenated names do you prefer...?
To go with a beginning like: Alice, Taylor, Sarah, or Mary -Jo -Anne -Beth -Lynn -May -Lee Which are your favorites and with which names....such as Alice-Jo. Suggestions welcome
Hyphen names with Marie?
I'm changing my name and I know my middle name is going to be Marie, but I'm highly interested in having a hyphen name, as they do in France. What are some attractive names you can think of? I'm choosing Marie after an anecestor of mine, but if I can think of another name to join it with that is nice or has meaning to me, I might go with that. Marie Antoinette is probably my favourite example. I'd like something traditional.
If you have a Korean first name, do you prefer it to be separated, hyphenated, or pushed together when romanised? Why?
My Korean name is ‘Wonjun Yoon’ (윤원준) and I prefer 200% to be together.If I write my name as ‘Won jun Yoon’ or ‘Won Jun Yoon’ or whatever, then people will think ‘Won’ is my first name and ‘Jun’ is my middle name and ‘Yoon’ is my last name, which is not!!You see, a lot of names (like pretty much 99% of them) in Korea are all 3 letters. Mine is three letters as well. There are some special cases where a name is 2 letters or 4 letters or even more but those are pretty rare. So, some people think that making all three letters separate would make more sense but I object, because of the reason given above.So this is my student ID that I got in my high school.(It says Northwest Missouri State University, because my high school was technically a part of the university.)(Now let’s disregard the picture. I have no idea what is wrong with that picture. WHY DID I TAKE SUCH AN AWKWARD PICTURE?!)The reason why I’m showing this to you is because of how the name is written on the student ID. It says “WonJun” instead of “Wonjun.” So in the e-mails I sent, it would display as “Won Jun” and they would think that Won is my first name. Therefore, a lot of them would refer to me as ‘Won’ instead of ‘Wonjun,’ which kinda pissed me off at first but I just didn’t care after all; I simply told them that my preferred name is “Phillip,” after that people will call me Phillip.So I prefer mine to be together like ‘Wonjun.’ I don’t understand why some people hyphenate their name, there seems to be no real benefit doing that.
Hyphenated last names. Which one is the one used primarily?
From a legal standpoint the dominant name is Smith-Williams. In most states, school and other legal paperwork MUST have the exact name as written on the birth certificate. When two last names are hyphenated, then the child's name becomes a separate name from either of the parents' last names. The child would be neither "John Smith" nor "John Williams" on paper, but the full legal name "John Smith-Williams."
Suggestions for names that can be hyphenated with Anna?
I want to use the name Anna for my daughter, but I find it a little too plain at times, so I'm playing around with hyphenating it with something. Middle name will be Michelle, (A family name.) I kind of like Joy-Anna, Anna-Faith, Anna-Hope or Anna-Eden, but I don't love any of them. (It doesn't have to be a virtue name, like above. It can be anything.) Something short, I would prefer, and nothing too popular. Oh, and no names at end in -ah, or -a. I find it too rhyme-y. Thank you!
When a name is hyphenated (either first or last names), does it count as just one word?
As far as Microsoft Word is concerned, it’s going to read as one word. The same is generally true of the computerized database at the DMV, so if you have an alphabetical list of names, the first letter of the first hyphenated element will be what you have to look for.As a matter of linguistic derivation, I suppose it’s two.As a practical and social matter, it’s up to the owner of the name in question. If your name is Ana-Maria or Jean-François or whatever, you can define the name you want to be known by as the whole name or just a part of it. So Ana-Maria might say “don’t call me ‘Ana’”. For that matter, you are entitled to choose whether or not to shorten your name if your name is not hyphenated. It’s good form to follow the name owner’s lead and address someone by their preferred nominal form.Same goes for surnames. I wrote an answer on my observations about how hyphenated surnames are used a while back, which touches on this. Hyphenated are usually considered socially to be two names, though which one of them is used more varies by the culture of the namers. In “Spanish” names, a name like Carlos Rivera-Colón will be just “Sr. Rivera”; in “English” names, a name like Bridget Jones-Smith might be “Mrs. Smith” though some people might prefer “Mrs. Jones-Smith”. Once in a while you’ll get a surname that is always two words, like de Gaulle or Vaughn Williams.The law doesn’t care one way or the other. The purpose of a name is to identify its bearer. “Consistent, non-fraudulent use” of any name is generally lawful. I’m also not aware of any rule limiting the number of first names someone can have—typically it’s two in the U.S.; it’s sometimes three in England, but it’s not specified by any statue anywhere. However, an unduly cumbersome name might not be able to be fully expressed in a computer system.