• TexasDrunk@lemmy.world
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    25 days ago

    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.

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      24 days ago

      I have a friend who has on paper, no first name and they go by their middle name. It causes a lot of problems on government documents depending which party decides to be pedantic about which name goes where