On 8/30/2006 at 11:01 AM Don wrote: >Yes, and a Macedonian (?) married female's last name is a >diminutive form of her husband's last name. And married >females in western societies *tend* to use "Mrs". I don't know about Macedonian, but many Slavic languages decline the surname as to sex and marital status. And then there's the whole affair of patrynymics... Cheers, Chuck