Yeah, ours goes through several spellings on the records here before it settles down as the one that still exists today. I found cousins on Facebook by searching the name!

This post is teaching me about American name-change craziness! I'm English and I just changed my name really easily. (I was hyphenating it and my husband wasn't, and I was getting married in the US and wasn't sure the foreign marriage certificate would be useable as legal proof, etc). It was so easy; I could just…

Yeah, I've got two first names and two last names and I've never had a problem with it.

Other cultures handle it fine, though – the double-barrelled thing isn't is pretty normal in Spain.

Whoa, I had no idea it was so hard. Here you can just do a deed poll any time you like, for any reason, where you say "My name is now Super Amazing Name-Having Person" — I did that when I changed my name and it was super duper easy.

I just recently hyphenated my name and love it because I can sort of justifiably use one or the other or both whenever it suits me. My kids will be hyphenated and can do what they like with it as they grow up — I feel like I'm giving them the option of having either name (or both).

I actually thought of changing my name to the original family name — my great-great grandparents came from Eastern Europe and the name was so hard to spell (and they were so illiterate) that it ended up getting formalised here in the UK as a weird misspelled and totally unique name. Some branches of my family kept it…

The awesomeness is definitely a factor. I hyphenated because my maiden name is really boring (and was changed by my granddad anyway, so it's not like it has a long history) and my husband's name sounds super exotic and exciting in my country but is one that's sadly often looked down on in his home country (where we'll…

I haven't been given a cheque for a million years, but I haven't had this problem with anything else, either — when I send each invoice it has my bank details on, so the payer has my name right there.

Ha!

You know what? I do keep my legs together when I sit, and I don't wear anything "teensy tiny" – crotch coverage really isn't an issue. But non-clingy skirts on unexpectedly breezy days have occasionally proved a problem, hence the need for big knickers to provide bum coverage.

I'm suddenly having flashbacks to the time I was in line at Quiznos and the bloke in front of me had the waistband of his trousers actually BELOW HIS BUM. Full pants exposure above the trousers. I have no idea how he was managing to keep them up. It was sort of mesmerising, like when TI wears a hat at a totally…

Hee, that reminds me of when I was single and trying to be sexy, and would wear my usual thongs for comfort… but then have a fancy, lacy, beautiful pair of big knickers that I'd nip to the loo and change into at the last minute! Thongs are purely practical for me.

Showing ones knickers might be trashy, be they thong or shorts-style… but surely if you can't tell what sort of knickers a girl's got on they can't possibly be judged trashy?

I just prefer to be comfortable, so I choose thongs.

I think as others have said if there's actual vulva-to-denim contact, they're just the wrong knickers. I'm a perma thong wearer!

Me too, exactly. Can't stand wearing anything but a thong during the day, and can't stand wearing any knickers at all during the night.

This is fascinating! I'd never really given it any thought before, but I now realise I find the "big knickers" annoying because there's too much material in the front and the underneath bit — the edges tend to rub on the top of my thighs too much. The slightly less material in the underneath bit of thongs is enough to…

Yes, that puzzled me. All my various bits fit neatly inside a thong – I can't imagine a situation when anything would be uncovered.

I get annoyed when I have to wear "big knickers" because I'm wearing a risky skirt. Anything bigger than a thong makes me feel like I'm wearing shorts of some sort instead of underwear.