Re: CHAT: Middle Initials

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.