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Re: CHAT: Middle Initials

From:Padraic Brown <pbrown@...>
Date:Wednesday, February 14, 2001, 21:28
On Wed, 14 Feb 2001, andrew wrote:

>Am 02/13 14:57 John Cowan yscrifef: > >> In the U.S., women are far less likely to use a M.I., though it is >> certainly not unknown. My father was Thomas A. Cowan for all formal >> purposes; my mother was Marianne Cowan; I am John Cowan most of >> the time, John W. Cowan on my credit cards, John Woldemar >> Cowan on my book. And one company knows me as John L. Cowan, >> apparently having got my wife's M.I. mixed in to my name. >> >What book?
Why, the Gospel of John, of course! ;) Padraic.