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| Originally Posted by Bren Tierney And then you get folks inventing names/intials - like J K Rowling. Completely superfluous and stands for nothing. Touch of the George Elliot's perchance? |
Harry S. Truman - adopted the S (IIRC) simply because he felt it added some gravitas to his name.
Ian Duncan-Smith - decided to use his middle name as a surname as he thought plain old Ian Smith wouldn't do too well in politics.