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minus-squareNotSteve_@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·2 days agoNot entirely on topic but I’m curious, why do people include the F. In John F. Kennedy? Was there another well known John Kennedy at the time?
minus-squareBruceTwarzen@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 day agoI mean people also said George W Bush a lot. But that might have been so no one confuses him with his incompetent father.
minus-squaremagnetosphere@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up11·2 days agoGood question. I don’t know, and I’m too lazy to look it up.
minus-squareNotSteve_@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·edit-22 days agoFair enough haha. Decided to look it up myself and apparently it was a trend started by Franklin D. Roosevelt. Newspapers liked using the initials since it saved space in headlines so it kind of stuck around. Source: https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/1136/when-did-presidents-start-using-their-middle-initial-e-g-john-f-kennedy-was
Not entirely on topic but I’m curious, why do people include the F. In John F. Kennedy? Was there another well known John Kennedy at the time?
I mean people also said George W Bush a lot. But that might have been so no one confuses him with his incompetent father.
Good question. I don’t know, and I’m too lazy to look it up.
Fair enough haha. Decided to look it up myself and apparently it was a trend started by Franklin D. Roosevelt. Newspapers liked using the initials since it saved space in headlines so it kind of stuck around.
Source: https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/1136/when-did-presidents-start-using-their-middle-initial-e-g-john-f-kennedy-was