Re: CHAT: Middle Initials

After my parents married, they happened to buy the house across the road
from his parents. As they were both William Hlad, their mail was forever
being mixed up. My father added his middle initial V and his father added
his middle initial A. That still caused trouble until my father added  Jr.
so the mail was addressed

William A Hlad
William V Hlad, Jr.

before the mailman could get the delivery correct. Later they moved far
away, but the middle initial stuck though my father dropped the Jr. Good
thing because they named my brother William V Hlad as well and he became
William V Hlad, Jr. I wanting to be like my father added my middle initial
everywhere, Scott W. Hlad (W = you guessed it William) so in my family it is
tradition.

Scott Hlad

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Scott W. Hlad
Teran, a Conlang
http://www.teran-conlang.org
mailto:scott@kohath.org

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> Behalf Of Cian Ross
> Sent: Saturday, February 17, 2001 10:35 AM
> To: CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU
> Subject: Re: Middle Initials
>
>
> On 02/13/2001 at 5:06 PM Dan Jones wrote:
>
> >I've noticed something. Loads of American names have an initial in the
> >middle [...] So, a
> >question for you over on the other side of the pond, why do you do it?
>
> I actually don't--the only time I use my middle initial is on forms where
> there's a blank that has to be filled in with it. :)
>
> Cian Ross       cian@io.com