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(OT) Just out of Curiosity: Middle Names
In article , Sherry wrote:
And a friend of mine's middle name is "H." Just an "H". What were his parents thinking? I had a boss whose full name was "J Neal". No middle name, and his first name was quite literally the single letter J. At least that *sounds* like a legitimate name, unlike, say, "W". Art |
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(OT) Just out of Curiosity: Middle Names
"hopitus" wrote in message ... On Aug 18, 9:52 am, "Matthew" wrote: "jmcquown" wrote in message ... Try going through life *without* a middle name. No one ever believes you don't have one. People just think it must be something *awful* and you don't want to tell them. Only my oldest brother has a middle name. My other brother and I don't have one. My parents didn't have middle names, either. AFAIK my grandparents didn't have middle names. Sometimes (poorly designed) web forms insist the middle name field is mandatory so I have to make something up. I don't really understand the point of middle names. Is it so if you hate your first name you can use the other one? (What happens if you don't like either one? LOL) How many of you folks have a middle name? And if you do, which name do you go by, the first or the middle? OB cats: Persia is (as usual) stretched out in a puddle of sunshine behind my chair. I gave her another nice brushing last night. She purred like mad Jill This is a little off topic but something that only happens with a killer in the news If they kill a person they use their full name include their middle name specially serial killers IF they attempt or just do harm only their first and last ROFL. You read the same bylines as I do in news rags. learned that in my criminology classes years ago about serial killers |
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(OT) Just out of Curiosity: Middle Names
"jmcquown" wrote in message ... Try going through life *without* a middle name. No one ever believes you don't have one. People just think it must be something *awful* and you don't want to tell them. Only my oldest brother has a middle name. My other brother and I don't have one. My parents didn't have middle names, either. AFAIK my grandparents didn't have middle names. Sometimes (poorly designed) web forms insist the middle name field is mandatory so I have to make something up. I don't really understand the point of middle names. Is it so if you hate your first name you can use the other one? (What happens if you don't like either one? LOL) How many of you folks have a middle name? And if you do, which name do you go by, the first or the middle? OB cats: Persia is (as usual) stretched out in a puddle of sunshine behind my chair. I gave her another nice brushing last night. She purred like mad My middle name is Marie, after my paternal aunt. Sadly she died in a fire while she was working for the army during the war, she was only in her 20's. Until I managed to trace my half-siblings from letters found after my mother's death, I only knew she was my father's sister and had a tragic death. From meeting up with them in 2007 for the first time, I have a lovely photo of her - she was beautiful. All that side of the family are Scottish. I have always pronounced my middle name M'ree, English style but I found out that hers was pronounced Maari. (I thought you might be interested in the Scottish bit, Jill) My father and his sibs came from Kilmarnock. I have always used my first name, but my mother always used her middle one, as she did not like her first name, which was Enid. I can't imagine what my grandfather was thinking about when he registered her birth, my grandmother always used to leave it up to him to name the children as she was "lying up" as they did then, after childbirth. He named his children Olive Mabel, Arthur Bryan, Enid Audrey & Neil Stanley. All my close and extended family have middle names. It's often a custom here to have the middle name of your child the same as one of their grandparents. My niece, my brother's child) is called Charlotte "Rose" after her maternal grandmother. She would not appreciate Enid or Audrey would she? I wish my grandfather would have been more imaginative naming my mother. Where on earth did he get the idea for those names? Tweed |
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(OT) Just out of Curiosity: Middle Names
"jmcquown" wrote:
Try going through life *without* a middle name. No one ever believes you don't have one. People just think it must be something *awful* and you don't want to tell them. Only my oldest brother has a middle name. My other brother and I don't have one. My parents didn't have middle names, either. AFAIK my grandparents didn't have middle names. Sometimes (poorly designed) web forms insist the middle name field is mandatory so I have to make something up. I don't really understand the point of middle names. Is it so if you hate your first name you can use the other one? (What happens if you don't like either one? LOL) How many of you folks have a middle name? And if you do, which name do you go by, the first or the middle? OB cats: Persia is (as usual) stretched out in a puddle of sunshine behind my chair. I gave her another nice brushing last night. She purred like mad Jill Neither of my parents have a middle name. -- Adrian |
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(OT) Just out of Curiosity: Middle Names
On 08/18/2011 08:55 AM, jmcquown wrote:
Try going through life *without* a middle name. No one ever believes you don't have one. People just think it must be something *awful* and you don't want to tell them. Only my oldest brother has a middle name. My other brother and I don't have one. My parents didn't have middle names, either. AFAIK my grandparents didn't have middle names. Sometimes (poorly designed) web forms insist the middle name field is mandatory so I have to make something up. I don't really understand the point of middle names. Is it so if you hate your first name you can use the other one? (What happens if you don't like either one? LOL) How many of you folks have a middle name? And if you do, which name do you go by, the first or the middle? OB cats: Persia is (as usual) stretched out in a puddle of sunshine behind my chair. I gave her another nice brushing last night. She purred like mad Jill To distinguish one from the dozens or hundreds with the same first and last names. Nothing new under the sun! MLB |
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(OT) Just out of Curiosity: Middle Names
"Arthur Shapiro" wrote in message ... In article , Sherry wrote: And a friend of mine's middle name is "H." Just an "H". What were his parents thinking? I had a boss whose full name was "J Neal". No middle name, and his first name was quite literally the single letter J. At least that *sounds* like a legitimate name, unlike, say, "W". I don't know how how you register your births/deaths/marriages in the USA but I know a little about it, as the registrar of BDM had her office in my workplace. I was friendly with her. She was a lovely person and did some deathbed marriages, but, once, she refused to register a birth as the name was so stupid and the parents were drunk when they turned up to register the birth. Let me say that is very unusual. I dread to think what the proposed name was Tweed |
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(OT) Just out of Curiosity: Middle Names
"jmcquown" wrote in message
... Try going through life *without* a middle name. No one ever believes you don't have one. People just think it must be something *awful* and you don't want to tell them. Only my oldest brother has a middle name. My other brother and I don't have one. My parents didn't have middle names, either. AFAIK my grandparents didn't have middle names. Sometimes (poorly designed) web forms insist the middle name field is mandatory so I have to make something up. I don't really understand the point of middle names. Is it so if you hate your first name you can use the other one? (What happens if you don't like either one? LOL) How many of you folks have a middle name? And if you do, which name do you go by, the first or the middle? OB cats: Persia is (as usual) stretched out in a puddle of sunshine behind my chair. I gave her another nice brushing last night. She purred like mad Jill I have a middle name. Since I don't use it, I gave it to my daughter as a first name. My brother could empathize with you. He has a middle initial, rather than a name. He had an extremely difficult time when he joined the Navy, because they kept demanding to know what the initial stood for. Joy |
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(OT) Just out of Curiosity: Middle Names
On 2011-08-18 2:39 PM, Christina Websell wrote:
wrote in message ... Try going through life *without* a middle name. No one ever believes you don't have one. People just think it must be something *awful* and you don't want to tell them. Only my oldest brother has a middle name. My other brother and I don't have one. My parents didn't have middle names, either. AFAIK my grandparents didn't have middle names. Sometimes (poorly designed) web forms insist the middle name field is mandatory so I have to make something up. I don't really understand the point of middle names. Is it so if you hate your first name you can use the other one? (What happens if you don't like either one? LOL) How many of you folks have a middle name? And if you do, which name do you go by, the first or the middle? OB cats: Persia is (as usual) stretched out in a puddle of sunshine behind my chair. I gave her another nice brushing last night. She purred like mad My middle name is Marie, after my paternal aunt. Sadly she died in a fire while she was working for the army during the war, she was only in her 20's. Until I managed to trace my half-siblings from letters found after my mother's death, I only knew she was my father's sister and had a tragic death. From meeting up with them in 2007 for the first time, I have a lovely photo of her - she was beautiful. All that side of the family are Scottish. I have always pronounced my middle name M'ree, English style but I found out that hers was pronounced Maari. (I thought you might be interested in the Scottish bit, Jill) My father and his sibs came from Kilmarnock. I have always used my first name, but my mother always used her middle one, as she did not like her first name, which was Enid. I can't imagine what my grandfather was thinking about when he registered her birth, my grandmother always used to leave it up to him to name the children as she was "lying up" as they did then, after childbirth. He named his children Olive Mabel, Arthur Bryan, Enid Audrey& Neil Stanley. All my close and extended family have middle names. It's often a custom here to have the middle name of your child the same as one of their grandparents. My niece, my brother's child) is called Charlotte "Rose" after her maternal grandmother. She would not appreciate Enid or Audrey would she? I wish my grandfather would have been more imaginative naming my mother. Where on earth did he get the idea for those names? Tweed I suspect they were all fairly popular names in your grandparents' day, although I had an Audrey in my class in school and I know a Neil who is about 13 or 14, so they aren't limited to the past! My maternal grandfather (middle name Arthur) insisted on naming almost all his children (I think my grandmother got to choose the middle name of one or two of them) mostly after people on his side of the family. There was apparently a terrible fuss when my mother was invariably called by her middle name and not the first name that he chose! One of my sisters was given the middle name of Mildred after our grandmother who died about the time she was born. That sounds very old-fashioned now and I don't think she uses it any more. She's always hated it, and although as far as I know the grandmother in question was a perfectly nice and worthy woman, none of us can remember her at all. -- Cheryl |
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(OT) Just out of Curiosity: Middle Names
On 8/18/2011 12:40 PM, Joy wrote:
wrote in message ... Try going through life *without* a middle name. No one ever believes you don't have one. People just think it must be something *awful* and you don't want to tell them. Only my oldest brother has a middle name. My other brother and I don't have one. My parents didn't have middle names, either. AFAIK my grandparents didn't have middle names. Sometimes (poorly designed) web forms insist the middle name field is mandatory so I have to make something up. I don't really understand the point of middle names. Is it so if you hate your first name you can use the other one? (What happens if you don't like either one? LOL) How many of you folks have a middle name? And if you do, which name do you go by, the first or the middle? OB cats: Persia is (as usual) stretched out in a puddle of sunshine behind my chair. I gave her another nice brushing last night. She purred like mad Jill I have a middle name. Since I don't use it, I gave it to my daughter as a first name. My brother could empathize with you. He has a middle initial, rather than a name. He had an extremely difficult time when he joined the Navy, because they kept demanding to know what the initial stood for. Joy Tell him that he's in good company. Jesus had an initial as a middle name. How many times have you heard someone say "Jesus H. Christ"? ; Sorry, I hope that wasn't offensive to my Christian friends. -- Hugs, CatNipped See all our masters at: http://www.PossiblePlaces.com/CatNipped See the RPCA FAQ site, created by "Yowie", maintained by Mark Edwards, at: http://www.professional-geek.net/rpcablog/ Email: L(dot)T(dot)Crews(at)comcast(dot)net |
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(OT) Just out of Curiosity: Middle Names
"jmcquown" wrote in message
... Try going through life *without* a middle name. No one ever believes you don't have one. People just think it must be something *awful* and you don't want to tell them. Only my oldest brother has a middle name. My other brother and I don't have one. My parents didn't have middle names, either. AFAIK my grandparents didn't have middle names. Sometimes (poorly designed) web forms insist the middle name field is mandatory so I have to make something up. I don't really understand the point of middle names. Is it so if you hate your first name you can use the other one? (What happens if you don't like either one? LOL) How many of you folks have a middle name? And if you do, which name do you go by, the first or the middle? OB cats: Persia is (as usual) stretched out in a puddle of sunshine behind my chair. I gave her another nice brushing last night. She purred like mad Jill My mother always thought she had a middle name. It wasn't until she was in her 80s and tried to do some genealogical research that she found out that not only did she not have a middle name, her last name (before marriage) wasn't what she thought it was. She had been told she didn't have a birth certificate. This came about because her father was a bigamist, who left my grandmother before my mother was born. My grandmother would never talk about this. On the birth certificate, she was given the real last name of her father, but my grandmother always used the name he had used to marry her, both for herself and for her daughter. Joy |
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