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> > The middle name is so your parents/spouse can scold you properly, of course.
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> > Sosi"Andrea Taylor Smith, come here THIS MINUTE!"qui
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> My middle name is my connection to reality. With an outlandish name like Hierosolyma, I need a nice, normal middle name like Patricia to ground me. My middle name was almost Polyhymnia, and THAT would have been a disaster! Hierosolyma Polyhymnia duMinne? I would sound like some princess in an RPG! Eek!
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> Hiri"Hierosolyma is hard enough to spell without the Polyhymnia"duMinne

Or they are just so that you can be totally humiliated when you are asked about your middle name.....my Dad picked my middle name and my sisters, after 22 odd years I think we've forgiven him, except when we're asked about them

Dix"not going to say what her middle name is"ie