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To be or not to separate? This is the question That will come about due to the confusion, such as Rebecca Long-Bailey - or should it Bailey Long? Styles Your Name.

The Labour leadership contender, had the team told the media, including the BBC, which had the stroke of her last name officially not binding. It seems That the way to your British Parliament site and your site itself.

But it is written so, how Long Bailey on their Twitter page (even if your grip used an underscore instead). Then the word came from the MP itself. "There is actually a hyphen But I'm not disturbed," she told Sky News on Sunday.

The confusion seems to come When woman Long-interferes with Bailey , either variant and it is not told alone in their indifference, with Helena Bonham Carter in the first place, the hyphen in your name was "optional".

The Problem of the connective strokes are more complex, if someone connects to The House of Lords with a peerage the rules of a hyphen are used for a double last name (it's Andrew Lloyd Webber, But Lord Lloyd-Webber and Martha Lane Fox But ).

But where there is a choice, why do some choose a hyphen?

Jane Pilcher, associate professor of sociology at the Nottingham Trent University , studies of the family name and is interested in how people decide what to name itself.

"It's all connected to identity and That , said to say what people want about themselves, about the naming of the decisions you make," She Said . "The people are free from traditions Now . Select want for yourself and make yourself unique.

"If you have a hyphen or not, in this. It is a question of identity, and to say what you want about yourself - there are no strict rules about it. More generally, it is part of the societal Trends towards individualisation, so That they stand out from The Crowd more.

"Maybe someone who is a Two -part family name, does not want to be seen as conventional and would not choose to perform the hyphenation as a result. Where hyphens are sitting, is not a massive Problem - But I would say The Absence of one is also more informal and less traditional. "

Dr. Pilcher said, some choose a family name When you marry, select some Two - and some choose to blend name, As Is the case with the presenter and writer Dawn Porter , as the Dawn O'Porter, When she Married actor Chris O 'dowd.

she says That it is Now also an increased visibility of names.

"people are more conscious of the family name Now . When I left school, we had never hoodies with all of the Leaver-family-names - Now you see it all the time, and there are double-barreled names in a mix of other names.

"And with the football shirts to you have never used, last names, and Now many people have Two surnames. It increases the awareness of the people and showed there are ways. "

it has the name of your own family, When they Married , But their children have Two surnames.

"We have not with a hyphen, because it looked aesthetically better," says Dr. Pilcher. "But will the people put a hyphen where it doesn't, so we are in a constant battle with schools and doctor's offices to collect your name, as it is officially.

"With That the second family name makes you a much more human and more recognizable. My son is a musician and sees it as a plus, he has Two surnames. "

the writer and journalist Carmody Wilson hall amore agree with Two last names can be a bonus.

she took her second surname - hall-amore - if you are Married and enjoy the flexibility of being able to decide How To style your name for other circumstances. With a dash, She Said , it would have been "too long and too formal".

she added: "I like That I have options, and the dash feels like a chain That would force me with the double barrel Only . "

It is not without complications, although she says That both names were based on their office door, and she ran out of the room, because it was too long

Professor Richard Coates , who has said in a comprehensive study of British family names as part of the University of The West of England: "the more traditional British way to do it is to, separated with a different last name. It has become Now with children of unmarried parents or where a woman has chosen to keep her maiden name, as well is more common.

"In other traditions, such as Spain and Portugal, each has always had Two surnames, so there is no tradition of hyphenation at all. "

attorney Joanne Ford Pereira said, a Portuguese man with the family name When they marry - orientation of his country, the tradition, keep you stroke your maiden name and adding your husband's last name, without a hyphen.

"My husband would not have cared or so, But I liked the Convention and I like Alice, My Daughter , Now she has her maiden name as part of the surname I am one of Three Girls and we have no cousins on the father's side, so Ford would have gone once we were all Married . "

etiquette adviser Jo Bryant said: "It is becoming more and more common, Two surnames, as there are different types of union, and different attitudes to marriage.

"There are a lot of personal choice about whether you should or should not be separate, But it is best practice to be consistent. It is helpful to know for others, such as the address in the Correspondence . "

This is to avoid the "hyphen or no hyphen confusion", as in the case of MS Long-Bailey .

Ms Bryant added: "There is no right or wrong way, But it is rather a practical question, and on the avoidance of faux pas by it is wrong. "

Source of news: bbc.com