S and a dot apparently.
I used to work with a guy that was from China. He only had a first in a last name. He was going to college here and the college required everyone to have a middle initial as part of their login. They just used his last initial as his middle initial.
Wait does everyone there have a middle name? I’m Dutch and I don’t have a middle name. I figured that was quite common also in the English speaking world
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I knew that middle names are common in the US but I didn’t know it’s so deep in the culture
Poor Alex Song (A.S.S.)
Is a middle name mandatory for you?
I’ve usually seen NMN used for no middle name.
I had a friend like this in college. His name was AJ. That’s it. Just the letters.
Everyone in the department spent ages trying to guess what it stood for. I managed to glance his ID when we got lunch together once. His name was just AJ. There weren’t even periods marking it as an abbreviation.
Still haven’t told anyone though
My stoner friend’s incredibly, unbelievably stupid girlfriend has kids from a previous relationship named AJ, BJ, and CJ.
you have now made me suspect they are not abbreviations.
Assuming those are in sequence, sucks to be the middle kid
sucks to be the middle kid
I see what you did there.
Honestly I dunno, I’m not that close.
J Moore, the Moore in the wildly used Boyer-Moore string search algorithm, has a first name of a single letter, J. It’s not an abbreviation.
Moore enjoys rock climbing.[6]
This might be the most concise paragraph I’ve ever seen on Wikipedia!
Homer Jay Simpson Or Homer J. Simpson
If his name is S why is there a period… like an abbreviation.
People are used to adding periods so they just add it in.
Source: My middle name is a letter.
I have a family member whose middle name is a letter. A friend of mine has two family members that only have initials for their first name (one was named for the other). When the older joined the army they just gave him a name that fit the initials and that went on all his official paperwork.
Y?
Y not?
Y not and x not is not y or x.
Because sometimes they insist on abbreviating. It is just a stupid abbreviation.
Came here for this!
There’s also Ulysses S. Grant. The “S” was apparently just a mistake on his enrollment at West Point. His birth name was Hiram Ulysses Grant. He tried to switch his first and middle names, but ended up with the initials USG instead of UHG.
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.
Back in the 90’s I worked for a guy whose first name is “H”.
That also reminds me of this one public speaker back in 30 A.D. Jesus H Christ. Apparently the H is just an H. Who woulda thought.
I thought H stood for Harold. As in, “our father, who art in heaven, Harold be thy name…”
Pretty sure it’s Jesus H Roosevelt Christ
Monkey D. Luffy type shit
A friend in high school had a middle name of “J”
My father’s middle name is J. Just the letter. His father’s name was JQ, just the letters.
This is exactly where my brain went.
Gifs that end too soon.
/s
I’m skeptical. This could be true, or AI generated nonsense. It does link to a source, but I can’t verify the source.
To be fair to the person above, that’s actually the source given for how Truman wrote his own name, not for the S not standing for anything. The reference for that is number 8, which is a book rather than a website. That said, the one you linked does back up the S not standing for anything anyway
Speaking of number 8…
That she chose it herself and is responsible for a lot of unicode’s emojis says to me that she was this close to being Jennifer 🙏 Lee or similar
I had no idea about the emoji thing until I read that. I just know her as an author.
You can’t trust a historian’s biography or his official museum‽ Don’t trust TechSpot’s exaggerated headlines.
“I do my own research” is a short walk away from “I trust only my own sources”
In case you were referring to me, how was my comment any of that?
not you, the person you were commenting about.
