From: billy@anon.com 
  
 "Davey"  wrote in message news:107sisl$29 
 vt$1@dont-email.me... 
 > 
 > When I lived in the US, I was often filling in forms that required my 
 > middle initial, which doesn't exist. And when I say 'required', I mean 
 > they would not progress unless there was an entry in there. 
 > 
 > One of the Detroit area weathermen was famously called 'Dwayne X 
 > Riley'. The 'X' stood for 'Xavior', some folks' middle initials stood 
 > for nothing. When he died, Dwayne left behind "his 11 children, 
 > 24 grandchildren, and 19 great-grandchildren". 
  
 According to Harry S. Truman himself, quoted in 1962, his "S" stood for 
 his two grandfathers;  Anderson Shipp Truman and Solomon Young, 
  
 Presumably no forms ever required all three names to be 
 entered in full 
  
  
 bb 
  
 https://www.trumanlibrary.gov/education/trivia/use-of-period-aft 
 r-s-truman-name 
  
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