Did either of you bother to read my explanation for why my "legal" name is hyphenated???????
Since you want to do the broad brush thing here, I will 'splain it quickly.
It was a MISTAKE. I was 37 years old and had been signing my name the same way for most of those years. I was handed a pen and told "sign here" on the marriage certificate and just signed my normal signature.....I then realized my mistake and added my new last name to it.
I do not use the hyphenated form of my last name except for filing tax returns. I am very proud to be Mrs. hislastname and our daughter has only his last name.
If any of the bashers of hyphenated last names wishes to foot the bills for me to change my surname, I will be more than happy to do so.
I never bothered reading beyond post #20
Heck some people don't even read the articles before commenting :-)
BTW, I have a double-barrelled first name, and a second name with an O' in it. So if I had a double-barrelled second name I'd have to get them to make the little lines on where you sign your signature bigger! *L*
As it stands in work my name has 17 characters...so much so, that they had to redesign the single column size on our newspaper to take my by-line! *LOL*