Thursday 3 July 2014

Happy with your first name?

In a recent survey 9 French people in 10 said they were happy with their first name. Since there seems to be a preponderance of  Jean or Marie (or even Jean Marie) it is a bit of a surprise that not more try to change to something more individual. The process of changing one's name by deed poll - whatever the French equivalent is - is apparently long and bureaucratic (quelle surprise) and deters those who wish to become an Elvis or Madonna in place of mundane "machin toutlemonde".(thingummy whatsit).
Easier just to do it and when everyone knows you are called Sting you can forget it's really Gordon.
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