Re: Did someone mention how well the GRO were doing?

In article <AHQWnNAAMdtDFwOo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Eve McLaughlin <eve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >Does maiden name mean your birth name? If I'd been asked
> >for my maiden name I would have said Brown.

> Which would have been wrong - the maiden name is the name you had when
> you were a maiden, unmarried, virgin, whatever..

There can be complications with this. The name my wife had when she was
born was not the name by which I knew her before we were married. Her name
was changed, long before I met her, when her mother and father started living
together - and married later.

--
David Wild using RISC OS on broadband
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