From: Adam Flinton 

Gene McAloon wrote:
> On Fri, 4 Jun 2004 15:34:05 -0500, Bill Lucy  wrote:
>
>
>>In article , gmcaloon_2000
>>{at}Yahoo.com says...
>>
>>>Indeed it is Adam's ignorance, ignorance of American practice. Only a
computer
>>>geek or a Brit would use HST when referring to Truman.
Americans don't share
the
>>>Brit habit of abbreviating just about anything, even people's names.
>>
>>Oh, like FDR, Ike, JFK...?
>
>
> FDR and JFK are abbreviated only because they are mentioned so frequently and
> because both occupy a special place in the public's collective memories.
Truman
> does not. I don't know why you mentioned Ike. That is shorthand, not
initials,
> and comes essentially from the fact that so many who knew him used that
> shorthand.  A good example of this kind of the thing is that even Clinton is
> rarely if ever referred to using his initials.
>
> The common Brit practice is very different. They tend to use initials to a
much
> greater degree than we do and do it for almost anything and everything.
>

There is no exclusively "common Brit practice". The only common
practice on exhibit here is your std brainless bigotry.

Adam

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