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<p>My sister's Jewish husband's family has the same tradition: no child can have the same name as a living relative. Considering that my nephew John (on my wife's side) has exactly two male cousins, both of whom named John, I can see the reasons for the tradition.</p>
<p>Of course, I share the same middle name as my father and his father, whose middle name was from his grandfather. I got my first name from my great-grandfather.</p>
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My father claimed he and my mother spent a lot of effort on names, so I don't have the first name as any of my 20-odd cousins I have between my father's and mother's sides.</p><!-- Node text goes above. Div tags should contain sig only -->
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Information about American English usage [http://wsu.edu/~brians/errors/index.html|here] and [http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Writing/|here]. Floating point issues? Please read [http://docs.sun.com/source/806-3568/ncg_goldberg.html| this ] before posting. — emc</p>
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