Sentence examples for good surnames from inspiring English sources

Good surnames are Parker And Spring If you have other kids let your pookie play with them.

He also has a good surname: his father, Nick Begich, was a popular congressman who disappeared in 1972 while flying in a small plane.

Lots of people shorten their names, and you need to choose one that you like, and that will still sound good with your surname - e.g. the names Richard Wickes might sound okay, but what if he prefers to be called Rick? Don't ignore spelling.

A critic's notebook article on Wednesday about the continuing influence of the Czech novel "The Good Soldier Svejk" misspelled the surname of the composer who wrote an opera based on it in 1957.

A front-page picture caption in Circuits on Thursday with an article about specifications of electronic goods misspelled the surname of a shopper comparing ads printed out from Web sites with items in a Circuit City store in San Francisco.

Correction: December 28, 2004, Tuesday A front-page picture caption in Circuits on Thursday with an article about specifications of electronic goods misspelled the surname of a shopper comparing ads printed out from Web sites with items in a Circuit City store in San Francisco.

Among his many good qualities was a decent surname; we even shared the same last initial.

"My daughter has been required to use chopsticks since she turned 4, but she was not good at it," one mother, surnamed Xiao, told the paper.

Correction: The public editor column on Aug. 27 about how to distinguish good polling from bad misspelled the surname of the director of surveys for CBS News.

The moniker, an amalgam of the focal point of much of his work and his surname, seemed like a good fit.

My anglicised Mandarin name is Ho Kit Ying Hoo is my surname), but like any good ol' Mandarin name, all the syllables can very well sound like a last name.