[Daffynition]

Traylor - Hooker

[SamAdams76]

SO this woman I know named Susan Best probably shouldn’t hyphenate her name when she marries Richard Lay.

[VOA]

I often go into a bit of “seasonal depression” around July.

That’s when Jay Leno has finally finished the yearly run of double-entendre
marriage/wedding announcements (most from May + July) on his
“Headlines” segment on Mondays.

As I get older and my bones get more fragile...someday I’ll break
a rib or two laughing at some those announcements.

[blam]

I used to hire a lot of professional people, mostly engineers.

When I saw a hyphenated name on a resume, I tossed it aside. I needed serious people.

[tet68]

So if Doty Goodman married Truman Capote
she’d be Doty Capote?

[4everontheRight]

Not really on the subject but my ex neighbor had the last name Dill. Their daughter had to work with a classmate and come up with an invention and name the company, etc. I don’t even remember what the invention was because I couldn’t get past what their daughter (Dill) and her classmate (Doe) called their company.

[JLS]

The real reason this hyphening fad is silly is that when little:

Jon Smith-Jones

marries little

Mary Johnson-Jackson

are they really going to name their offspring

Joe Johnson-Jackson-Smith-Jones?

I guess they must do something like this among the upper classes in Spain given some of the names they have strung together. I can not believe the US is going to go for the fad generation after generation but we shall see.

[samm1148]

If Matthew Perry married Marsha Mason she would be Marsha Perry-Mason.

[Slings and Arrows]

"Mature" is not the word I'd use for this content.