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Why did he adopt her surname as his own middle name?[edit]
I've heard of couples who hyphenate the marital surname: Bob Smith marries Mary Jones, and they become Bob Smith-Jones (or Jones-Smith) and Mary Smith-Jones (or Jones-Smith).
I've even heard of couples where the husband takes the wife's surname, the reverse of the usual practice: Bob Smith marries Mary Jones, and they are then known as Bob Jones and Mary Jones.
But I've never heard of a husband adopting his wife's surname as his own middle name. Until now. Why did Masaryk do this? -- JackofOz (talk) 02:56, 30 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Hyphenating the names would be just too unnatural in Czech language. I've been taught that he didn't adopt it as a middle name, but as a part of his surname. As strange as it may sound, he basically had two-part surname. --193.85.146.236 (talk) 14:29, 6 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
