CHANGING NAMES
Why do some people feel they must change their name?
For many reasons, of course, some required legally while others may be sheer whims. For convenience, too, in the case of unpronounceable combinations of letters of world, which in another language turn out to be silly, less than acceptable in mixed society or just plan dirty.
there are times in life when we may wish to establish a new identity; writers, painters and musicians often start using various names with specific types of work they'd most girls, when they marry, change their their name. That would seem to be a terrible thing to have to do, may be that the idea of creating a new cast of life ....the new family... an incentive to make the shift worthwhile.
I must be difficult for some to do.....that's where
we get they hyphenated names form and they, too, can be troublemakers and in some ways, degrading for each other. To some such usage they sound high-highfalutin; putting on the dog, pretending their family was better than the spouses.
Most of us, I think, are aware of the old vaudeville routine wherein a man Charlie wants his name officially changed to Bill. Every morning when the office staff comes in they will say: “Bill Stynx” rather than “Charlie Stynx”!
For many divorced women name changes can be for passing humor.
Names have been changed because those who have been responsible to record names on shipping manifests, for instance, could not spell them and wrote them down pretty much as they sounded. Many foreign families migrating to the United States, ended up with varied names because immigration officials could not always spell properly and names were often written down as they sounded when spoken. Name changed as they skipped foreign language to another, as well. Most of them, have been modified in some way over the centuries...last names have changed considerably...so you can't be sure what your name may have been years ago.
A.L.M. January 10, 2006 [c347wds]
