Sjmarf to Today I LearnedEnglish • 8 hours agoTIL that the “S” in “Harry S. Truman” isn’t an abbreviation. His middle name was just “S”.en.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square50fedilinkarrow-up1286arrow-down14
arrow-up1282arrow-down1external-linkTIL that the “S” in “Harry S. Truman” isn’t an abbreviation. His middle name was just “S”.en.wikipedia.orgSjmarf to Today I LearnedEnglish • 8 hours agomessage-square50fedilink
minus-squareFlying SquidlinkEnglish24•edit-27 hours agoAnd then there’s the odd case of “Thomas a Becket.” Thomas Beket was never called Thomas a Becket in his lifetime. He apparently went by many names, one of which was “Beket,” but never “a Becket.” https://www.york.ac.uk/news-and-events/news/2023/research/thomas-a-becket-study/
minus-square@Regrettable_incidentlinkEnglish1•31 minutes agoYeah, that’s just odd. ‘A’ isn’t something you’d find before a surname as part of the name, unlike ‘d’ or ‘o’ etc.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish10•edit-27 hours agoIs this the genesis of British “humour”? Thomas, a Becket, even got the name in the time of Shakespeare. Waiting for somebody to eviscerate me over British history, cause all I know is Monty Python.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•38 minutes agoI think you’re going to need some Blackadder to go along with your Monty Python. Start with the second series though, as the first series is a little weaker (the characters and style are a bit different), and might put you off.
And then there’s the odd case of “Thomas a Becket.” Thomas Beket was never called Thomas a Becket in his lifetime. He apparently went by many names, one of which was “Beket,” but never “a Becket.”
https://www.york.ac.uk/news-and-events/news/2023/research/thomas-a-becket-study/
Yeah, that’s just odd. ‘A’ isn’t something you’d find before a surname as part of the name, unlike ‘d’ or ‘o’ etc.
Is this the genesis of British “humour”? Thomas, a Becket, even got the name in the time of Shakespeare.
Waiting for somebody to eviscerate me over British history, cause all I know is Monty Python.
I think you’re going to need some Blackadder to go along with your Monty Python.
Start with the second series though, as the first series is a little weaker (the characters and style are a bit different), and might put you off.