Thursday, March 09, 2006

Naming rules.

Something I did not know, courtesy of Laura Turner:
Apparently, it wasn't until 1993 that parents in France became legally free to give their child whatever name they chose, as opposed to having to choose either a classical, Biblical or calender saints' name. Giving your baby a hyphenated and alternately spelled versions of allowed names was permitted in France starting in the 1960s.

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