Show hyphenated NAMES use of the hyphen 1 usually piece of snobbery hyphenated names in europe may be divided into two categories ories namely those wherein the hyphen is a mere place of snobbery and affectation and thoss wherein it is consequent upon a leeral obligation tha iv lor ar in the minority ayl aal are borne almost in variably by legatees lega tees and tasir dar who have inherited property usually real estate upon their tacking the name of tho testator n to their own or else they arc men ho have married and been accepted as husbands for the latter on the condition that they should append the family of their wives to their own patronymic people in the other category who use the hyphen merely with the object of creating the that they are of more ancient lineage than is really lie case prefix instead of appending tic additional nna and it is thiis that enables one to distinguish the bona aids double barrel as lord randolph churchill used to call them from those who are not for you have only to ask mr joics joncs for the name of his paternal firanzi anther in order to find out that the old gentleman was a bimble jones devoid of the aristocratic whereas in the case of surnames adopted in deference to testamentary dispositions one will invariably find on inquiry that the paternal grandfather and ancestors bore the first of the two patronymics the persons who make use of hyphenated names without being compelled to do so are usually the owners of patronymics excruciatingly plebeian who hope vainly it is true to redeem alie commonplace character of their name by prefixing thereto one calculated cu they trust to create the impression that they are connected with some of alie great houses of the nobility thus it is quite common to find montmorency smiths robinsons aud vere de vere browns |