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Ahhh ...ya gotta larf :)

Unless your name is Jo ...

22 October at 21:34 | Wall-to-wall | Open on aus.social
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Has she been able to do whatever it was ...

I would have been making a few phone calls ...

My offspring have had a few problems with certain documents by not having middle names ... even been told that "everybody has a middle name" ...

My offspring haven't been christened/baptised either ... Shock! Horror!

22 October at 21:49 | Open on aus.social
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@MyView yes, she used a longer form of that name. I've run into the middle name thing before, I've got two of them, much US-based software used to insist on mandatory one middle initial - VISA cards still do. Friend at uni (jane smith) had no middle name so had a student ID card that was name based as "jxsNNN" where x stood for bad software

22 October at 22:51 | Open on aus.social
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Funny things about names ... I've been doing a lot of historical research and found it difficult to trace some people because they either didn't like their first name so used the middle one, or to differentiate from their father with the same name ...

And really confusing when families traditionally called their first born son after the father ... for generations ...

Even harder when a name can be shortened and no idea if Great Uncle Bert was Herbert, Albert, Bertram, Hubert, Gilbert, Robert ...

@ajft

Funny things about names ... I've been doing a lot of historical research and found it difficult to trace some people because they either didn't like their first name so used the middle one, or to differentiate from their father with the same name ...

And really confusing when families traditionally called their first born son after the father ... for generations ...

22 October at 23:09 | Open on aus.social
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