Re: Use of middle names

the wrote on Mon, 26 Jan 2009 14:51:30 GMT:

James Silverton wrote:
Chuck wrote on Mon, 26 Jan 2009 12:47:53 +0000:

"Chuck Riggs" <chriggs@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On 24 Jan 2009 01:18:59 -0800, R H Draney <dadoctah@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

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(My own situation is further complicated both by the
strictly obligatory addition of the suffix "Junior" and
by a nickname that essentially took the place of my
official given name through much of my childhood, a
nickname that has both a full and abbreviated form)....

My father and I, with our identical tripartite names, are
lucky in that, since we live thousands of miles apart, he
can drop the Jr and I can drop the III without causing any
confusion.

I'm not very fond of dynastic suffixes like your "III" but
I'll admit that I have received junk mail addressed to
"James Silverton V", based on my middle intial of "V". I
don't think a real "V" is a record but it may be close.

If we include a lineage of French kings I have in mind, it
is nowhere close. I'm no historian, but besides Louis, there
must be others in both France and England which contained
more than five members. --

I purposely expressed my opinion of dynastic suffixes both
"noble" and otherwise but didn't the French kings manage an
18th Louis? That rather beats the pathetic British 8th Henry.

And 8th Edward.

True enough, even if he never was officially inducted into office and, strangely enough, used to be called David before he succeeded to the throne. The Scots' indignation about Elizabeth II, could have happened earlier since I dont't know what number David he "should" have been because the Scots had a King David II.

--

James Silverton
Potomac, Maryland

Email, with obvious alterations: not.jim.silverton.at.verizon.not

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