My dominican wife insists that her married name is Se?ora Maria Gomez de Thompson, forename, maiden name then "de" my family name and not as it would be English Mrs Maria Thompson. I do not know of this construction in any other language. Can someone explain to me the why of it and how it came about ? (Only the names are changed , to protect the innocent.).
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I don't know why you post this on the Spanish 101 forum!!! 
When a woman gets married in the DR not sure about other Latin or Spanish speaking countries, they don't loose their last name. She's right her married name in the DR is Se?ora Maria Gomez de Thompson or a rough translation Mrs. Maria Gomez OF Thompson.
Get her a Dominican passport with her married name and you will see that she is right.
When a woman gets married in the DR not sure about other Latin or Spanish speaking countries, they don't loose their last name. She's right her married name in the DR is Se?ora Maria Gomez de Thompson or a rough translation Mrs. Maria Gomez OF Thompson.
Get her a Dominican passport with her married name and you will see that she is right.
This is what is done in most or all Spanish speaking countries I'm familiar with, although there may be some where the practice of the wife adopting the husband's surname (in this case, she would become Sra. Maria Thompson). The "de Thompson" is optional. It's quite old fashioned and in the DR it's really only common among the upper classes. Most married women just go one using their name (Maria Gomez) and do not bother with the "de" bit.
Yup. My elderly and very proper suegra uses "de" [actually, she now uses "vda" since my suegro died, denoting she's a vedova = widow] but my 5 Dominican [married] sisters-in-law all only use their maiden name. They were somewhat puzzled that I took my husband's surname when we married.
Goofy gringa tradition :ermm:
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