What Is A Skupulawski?

A while ago, when Ken and I were talking about the logistics of marriage in general (NOT of course, in reference to ourselves), we talked about last names and the options women have about all that. I had come across a couple who had, contrary to the traditional approach, not only both taken a hyphenated name, but also used his name first, and her name last.



I think, perhaps, we were also talking about the unusual naming sytem in Iceland (where your last name isn't that of your parents - it's typically a derivation from your father's first name).



Ken, of course, to be different, said "we wouldn't hyphenate - we would concatenate."

(Middle English, from Late Latin concatenatus, past participle of concatenare to link together, from Latin com- + catena chain Date: 15th century: meaning linked together)



And thus began our inside joke of "Skupulawski."



Which I think would be a wonderful name for a band, if we ever formed one.