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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]People in casual handwritten correspondence have done this through out history.  It’s nothing new.  [/quote]+1[/quote]

+2 but even moreso now, when we have the habit of dashing off quick texts with our thumbs and using shorthand/acronyms.

I remember my BFF asking what baby names we had picked when I was pregnant-- she knew I wasn't telling anyone the names (as she hadn't), but wondered if we had chosen a different initial for the kid than either DH or I had-- "to keep things organized/simplify (whatever)." I didn't think that way-- if DD had been a boy, his name would have had the same first initial as DH-- but I kind of knew what she meant. She ended up choosing a different first initial for her second child, so they are Q, P, X and R. I mean, that makes her sound like she put waaaaaay more uptight planning into it than she really did, but I kind of get it.

So she definitely does that in correspondence, and in her family it's totally clear if she says, "We got Q a bunch of books at the library." But it's not a privacy thing-- she uses an initial for her husband, too.

On the other hand, I know families who not only use the same initial for everyone/more than one kid, but give them super-similar names. Think Larla and Larna. Anyway![/quote]

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