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minus-squareNotSteve_@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·1 month 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-squaremagnetosphere@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up12·1 month agoGood question. I don’t know, and I’m too lazy to look it up.
minus-squareNotSteve_@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·edit-21 month 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
minus-squareBruceTwarzen@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 month agoI mean people also said George W Bush a lot. But that might have been so no one confuses him with his incompetent father.
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?
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
I mean people also said George W Bush a lot. But that might have been so no one confuses him with his incompetent father.