"Cheryl Freeman" wrote: > [...] Mom had never used her middle name and wasn't sure > what it was. [...] At least she knew she had one. My firm in England was working on a computer project with an Italian firm. One of the Italians, after a workshop meeting in the UK, told his mother of his surprise at meeting a culture in which it was normal to have two given names. She took the opportunity to tell him that he himself had a second given name, and what it was. myths@ic24.net (cecilia)