Michael Kay wrote:
>>Surely a mere preference, not affecting one's legal name, is
>>insufficient to activate this.
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>In England if you make a public statement that you wish to be known by a
>particular name, then that is your legal name.
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What do you do when "the man formerly known as Prince" shows up in an
office and declares himself to be known by a non-alphanumeric, indeed
non-Unicode symbol, which he draws on a piece of paper?
I suspect that the U.K. National Health Service would simply ask him to
stand in the line designated for such folks -- in which case he'd likely
expire before being checked in to see the doctor, but afterwords the
documentation of this would be impecable :-)
Jonathan
