Children's names

Hmmm, that seems odd. I would have assumed that it was a double barrelled first name. I don't know anyone who calls their kid by their first and middle name - unless they're really angry with them! 


This seems like the place to ask a question of my own, if you'll pardon my intrusion huskergal ! Up until about four years ago, the company I work for was owned by an American company. For the most part, we didn't have much to do with the US side of things, until probably the last few years before they sold us off. One thing we noticed, that was different to what we were used to, was a lot of people in the US side of the business used their First name - Middle Initial - Last Name in their correspondence and email signatures. So while we (Aussies) would have Paul Simpson in the email, the Americans would have Paul J Simpson. Is that common practice? At first I though it was because there may have been several Paul Simpsons, and that was the way to differentiate, but when I checked the directory, there often wasn't another person with the same name. 

Oh, I should add that it was mostly the higher up executives who did the First name - Middle Initial - Last Name thing. Not the plebs like me!