- From: Philip Taylor (Webmaster) <P.Taylor@Rhul.Ac.Uk>
- Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 22:36:19 +0000
- To: Patrick Garies <pgaries@fastmail.us>
- CC: public-html@w3.org
Patrick Garies wrote: > I don’t know why you > would propose “familyname” instead of “surname” though. According to > http://www.m-w.com/ [1], the term family name is a synonym of the term > surname; the definition of the term surname is “an added name derived > from occupation or other circumstance”, which seems pretty generic to me > [2]. I don’t know which languages/cultures “surname” would be > inapplicable to. Fair comment. For reasons that are no longer clear, I was under the impression that a surname always /followed/ a given name; I can find no evidence to support this, so I withdraw my objection without reservation. "Familyname" may, however, be more transparent to non-native speakers. Philip TAYLOR
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