Sjmarf@sh.itjust.works to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 months agoTIL that the “S” in “Harry S. Truman” isn’t an abbreviation. His middle name was just “S”.en.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square34fedilinkarrow-up1335arrow-down14
arrow-up1331arrow-down1external-linkTIL that the “S” in “Harry S. Truman” isn’t an abbreviation. His middle name was just “S”.en.wikipedia.orgSjmarf@sh.itjust.works to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 months agomessage-square34fedilink
minus-squareFlying Squid@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up23·edit-210 months agoAnd then there’s the odd case of “Thomas a Becket.” Thomas Beket was never called Thomas a Becket in his lifetime. He apparently went by many names, one of which was “Beket,” but never “a Becket.” https://www.york.ac.uk/news-and-events/news/2023/research/thomas-a-becket-study/
minus-squareRegrettable_incident@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·10 months agoYeah, that’s just odd. ‘A’ isn’t something you’d find before a surname as part of the name, unlike ‘d’ or ‘o’ etc.
And then there’s the odd case of “Thomas a Becket.” Thomas Beket was never called Thomas a Becket in his lifetime. He apparently went by many names, one of which was “Beket,” but never “a Becket.”
https://www.york.ac.uk/news-and-events/news/2023/research/thomas-a-becket-study/
Yeah, that’s just odd. ‘A’ isn’t something you’d find before a surname as part of the name, unlike ‘d’ or ‘o’ etc.