The front's jihadis "are fighting now," alongside Free Syrian Army units, "but when the revolution finishes, we will throw them out," said Mr. Homsi, the rebel officer, who used an alias instead of his surname because of the nature of his activities.
Attending Belmont based on a recommendation by Greg Walters, a friend she made through the Minneapolis music circuit, Kopecky initially aspired to be a solo singing-songwriting performer named Kelsey Joy, using her middle name instead of her surname.
Arianda, who uses her middle name instead of her Ukrainian surname, Matijcio, first appeared onstage at age three, reciting part of a patriotic Ukrainian poem at a Ukrainian school hall in Passaic, New Jersey.
But quite a few of her female friends, including myself, didn't change our names when we got married, which means her children call us by our children's surnames instead of our own.
I delighted at the thought that my mythical children would have only one surname instead of an awkward multihyphenate that sounds like the name of a law firm.
"Do you have a family?" I asked, but I misspoke, using the word familiya, which means "surname," instead of sem'ya, which means "family".
Even though the titles used in letter salutations are not quite as formal as those used on the envelop, you would still usually address the pastor by his surname instead of his first name or full name.
Often the HMMs misclassified the middle name as a second given name instead of the first of two surnames.
Some people, such as at work, actually think that you pronounce my surname as "Shalom", instead of "Salom", which can be awkward, which can get a tad irritating, frustrating and tiresome (explaining) at times, but it's a low number of people, and I just try to think of the funny side.
Byron discussed spelling Allegra's surname as "Biron" instead of as "Byron" to further distinguish her from his legitimate daughter, Augusta Ada Byron.
