> From: Melinda Shore <melinda.shore@xxxxxxxxx> > I agree that this is probably not appropriate for publication as an RFC > but it would certainly be useful to find someplace for it in the wiki. Actually, it would be good to have a series of these (or maybe one page with a number of sections): we could also use one for Hispanic names (patronymic _and_ matronymic 'family name'), for cultures which only use _one_ name (no family names), etc, etc. And as Patrik points out, there are also the Icelanders.. :-) Noel