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cc: Christopher JS Vance <freebsd@nu.org>
Subject: Re: Alright you primitive screwheads, LISTEN UP!!
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Hi,

Svein Halvor Halvorsen wrote:
> * Christopher JS Vance [2005-05-20 16:21 +1000]
> 
>> I was told some years ago that the telephone directory (-ies?) in
>> Iceland index primarily by personal name, with patrionymic or family
>> name being subsidiary.
> 
> 
> In Iceland it is very uncommon to have family names as such. You usually 
> take your father's name and add "sonur" if you're a boy, or "dóttir" if 
> you're a girl. Your name does not change in marriage, and your whole 

This is also true for some parts of India. The 'family' name of the 
children is the father's first name.

Erich