What happened to Dafydd ab Hugh?
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You have the benefit of having a cool acronym outcome there. My three initials are...unfortunate. Thanks Mom and Dad!
The Dafydd spelling and the patroynmic (ab = son of; ap is another spelling) are both Welsh, so perhaps he has that heritage and wanted to lean into it. At any rate, his Vengeance was the first Star Trek novel I ever read, and I read it so many times (less money, more re-reading) some scenes are permanently in my head.
*That*s something, I also do - out of the same reasons, although I don't think of you as "pretentious ass". I use my middle initial, because it sounds cool. ^^
Reminds me of a gag out of (if I remember right) Baum's Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz: it seems that the wizard's real name is Oscar Zoroaster Phadrig Isaac Norman Henkle Emmannuel Ambroise Diggs. When he was a circus and vaudeville performer, he went by his first two initials, which spell "OZ," because the rest of his initials spell out something that suggested he was microcephalic. (I dunno: that sounds like it would be a pretty zippy name to go by.)
My middle initials are both "H"; I customarily either use both, or use none.
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