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Did you notice that?
pwhodges:
--- Quote from: Method of Madness on 02 Sep 2013, 15:15 ---Some of my friends have their mother's last name as their middle name, which seems kind of insulting ("we want our kid to have both our last names, but only one of them can be his real surname, with the other one hidden for the most part")
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In some cultures (Spanish, for instance), this is a normal and expected thing, which is routine rather than chosen in the way you indicate.
I have a middle name which is the Celtic name of a theologian that my father was studying at the time. My brother had got "Austin", as a form of (St) Augustine; curiously, my Godfather's first name was also Austin. My middle name is "Winfrith" (look up St Boniface), which is also the name of a village and the adjacent heath down in Dorset and thus in turn the name of the nuclear power station built there (the heath was part of what Hardy called Egdon Heath is his books). I use it on the Internet a bit because it makes it easier to get a unique login sometimes; but I'd fall over if anyone tried to call me by it!
Method of Madness:
And now I know your full name! (Given your screen name, it isn't that hard :mrgreen:)
pwhodges:
It's been publicly available for a long time, so I haven't just let any cat out of the bag.
jwhouk:
--- Quote from: ackblom12 on 02 Sep 2013, 15:19 ---I will give middle names one benefit. They can make tracing your family tree a bit easier.
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This times a thousand. It wasn't until this year that I realized my great grandfather HAD a middle name.
Zebediah:
Sometimes middle names make tracing your family tree easier. Sometimes not. Ever tried to search for James Francis Finn who was born in Pittsburgh in 1883 or '84? There are lots and lots of them. I have no idea which one is the right one.
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