Re: Ath aeldhôf-vy!

Christophe Grandsire wrote:
>Don't I know! ;)) But I don't think your solution would fit well with the
>system here, nor with what we like :)) . Here, you usually don't give a middle
>initial, unless you put only the initial of your first name, in which case you
>normally give the initials of your first and middle names.
Well, "middle initials" aren't all that common here in the UK either. And
they're never *pronounced* as initials when stating ones name (e.g. "Dan
Falkus Jones", never "Dan Eff Jones"). Generally, like the rest of Europe
we would give all pre-surname initials and then the surname, e.g. DBG Jones
(that's before adding the <F> for "Falkus"), which is a lot. Of course, all
this is just a stopgap measure until he sees sense and decides to take my
surname. ;o)

><shameless plug> By the way, I see that your other half is a Christophe!
>(OK, a
>Kristopher, but that's just a cognate all right ;))) ) Aren't they the best in
>the world?! ;)))) </shameless plug>
Whence the form "Kristopher" comes I'm not sure. It looks like it could be
frivolous respelling of the traditional Chr- (along the lines of "Krystal"
or "Kassandra") but his father insists that that spelling has been in the
family for generations. The surname "Falkus" is Eastern-European, IIRC,
which might shed some light on the spelling.

But, as a certain poetic cliche goes: a rose by any other name would still
smell as sweet. Yeah, my 'Stophe is pretty damn amazing ::grins bashfully::

Dan


>Christophe.
>
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