What's in a name
Mar. 19th, 2023 03:10 pmSo, part of wedding planning is what to do about last names.
To me it seems kind of old fashioned and a bit sexist for the wife to take the husband's name.![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
flickums seems seems to care a lotless about this. I think part of my problem is that "Sluman" isn't a pretty name. "Sl..." is not the best constonant cluster to start, starting words like slither, slime, slag and the like.
I could take Flick's name. But that belongs to her previous husband and would like to get rid of that.
A third option is to come up with an entirely new name and both change.
We could both revert to Flick's previous name - Keane.
We could combine the names. Sleane? Keaman?
Perhaps steal a name from a celebrity of fictional character we like. We both like The Man With Two Brains, and "Hfuhruhurr" is a simple, easy to spell option. And then there's "Bucket", which everyone knows is pronounced "bou-kei". The other good one is Frankenstein (pronounced "Fronk-en-steen")
Or come up with something off the shelf - we could choose "Featherstonhaugh" (pronounced "Fan-shaw") or Fanshaw (and insist it's prnounced "Feather Stone Haig".)
But if we're going for that, why not be even more creaive. "Dragonmaster" or "McAwesome" or something. Or we could change our entire names and go for something like "Princess Conseula Banana Hammock". Or maybe "Scarlett O'Hara" and "Rhett Butler"! I thik the name Scarlett would suit me.
To me it seems kind of old fashioned and a bit sexist for the wife to take the husband's name.
flickums seems seems to care a lotless about this. I think part of my problem is that "Sluman" isn't a pretty name. "Sl..." is not the best constonant cluster to start, starting words like slither, slime, slag and the like. I could take Flick's name. But that belongs to her previous husband and would like to get rid of that.
A third option is to come up with an entirely new name and both change.
We could both revert to Flick's previous name - Keane.
We could combine the names. Sleane? Keaman?
Perhaps steal a name from a celebrity of fictional character we like. We both like The Man With Two Brains, and "Hfuhruhurr" is a simple, easy to spell option. And then there's "Bucket", which everyone knows is pronounced "bou-kei". The other good one is Frankenstein (pronounced "Fronk-en-steen")
Or come up with something off the shelf - we could choose "Featherstonhaugh" (pronounced "Fan-shaw") or Fanshaw (and insist it's prnounced "Feather Stone Haig".)
But if we're going for that, why not be even more creaive. "Dragonmaster" or "McAwesome" or something. Or we could change our entire names and go for something like "Princess Conseula Banana Hammock". Or maybe "Scarlett O'Hara" and "Rhett Butler"! I thik the name Scarlett would suit me.
