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Old 08-16-2018, 12:13 PM   #8
chaley
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Originally Posted by stumped View Post
I thought a surname had to be a single word (the clue being that we say surname not surnames)
So my surname could be Smith. or Jones, or Smith-Jones but not "Smith Jones".
(Sticking to English names here, else it gets complicated )
But no such actual rule exists ?
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