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  2. Name blending - Wikipedia

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    Name blending, meshing, or melding is the practice of combining two existing names to form a new name. [1] It is most commonly performed upon marriage . According to Western tradition, the wife normally adopts the husband's surname upon marriage.

  3. List of double placenames - Wikipedia

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    Double placenames prominently feature the placenames of two or more constituents in double-barrelled form rather than invent a new name. This is often out of consideration for local sensitivities, since the smaller entity may resent its takeover, and may demand its symbolic perpetuation within an amalgamated name so as to propagate the impression of a merger between equals.

  4. How to Combine Baby Names to Create a Unique & New One - AOL

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    Baby name-combining technique No. 2: Portmanteau names. Looking for a unique baby name? Take two and make a new one. Start with a couple of names you like, and consider how you can piece them ...

  5. Amalgamation (names) - Wikipedia

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    An amalgamated name is a name that is formed by combining several previously existing names. These may take the form of an acronym (where only one letter of each name is taken) or a blend (where a large part of each name is taken, such as the first syllable). Amalgamated names are most commonly used for amalgamated businesses, characters and ...

  6. Microsoft Excel - Wikipedia

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    Subroutine in Excel calculates the square of named column variable x read from the spreadsheet, and writes it into the named column variable y. The Windows version of Excel supports programming through Microsoft's Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), which is a dialect of Visual Basic .

  7. Naming customs of Hispanic America - Wikipedia

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    The naming customs of Hispanic America are similar to the Spanish naming customs practiced in Spain, with some modifications to the surname rules.Many Hispanophones in the countries of Spanish-speaking America have two given names, plus like in Spain, a paternal surname (primer apellido or apellido paterno) and a maternal surname (segundo apellido or apellido materno).

  8. Double-barrelled name - Wikipedia

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    Hyphenated last names usually correspond to both last names of one of the parents, but both last names can be hyphenated, so some Hispanics may legally have two double-barrelled last names corresponding to both last names of both parents. Many Spanish scholars use a pen name, where they enter a hyphen between their last names to avoid being ...

  9. Mail merge - Wikipedia

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    Mail merge consists of combining mail and letters and pre-addressed envelopes or mailing labels for mass mailings from a form letter. [1]This feature is usually employed in a word processing document which contains fixed text (which is the same in each output document) and variables (which act as placeholders that are replaced by text from the data source word to word).