[Gllug] OT: Police Web Site

[Nix]

On 5 Feb 2011, John G. Walker spake thusly:

> On Sat, 05 Feb 2011 00:05:00 +0000 Nix <nix at esperi.org.uk> wrote:
>
>> You are (as you no doubt know) not by any means the only person on the
>> net to have changed his name to a single unusual word (indeed one of
>> the others I'm thinking of has chosen a bicapitalized neologism).
>
> Of course, there are people who only have one name anyway. I knew
> someone from south India who didn't have a surname. Apparently this is
> normal there - amongst many other places in the world. I never thought
> to ask him how he coped with the assumptions of systems designers,

Ask anyone from Iceland. Two names, but neither is anything like a
surname.
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