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Difference between Jr. & II (LIP)

MamaMandaWMamaMandaW member
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I came across this website when my co-workers and I were having a debate of the difference between a Jacket & Coat (long story lol).. and i thought you gals would enjoy this little tid bit Geeked

 https://www.differencebetween.net/miscellaneous/difference-between-jr-and-ii/

I thought this was interesting! Especially the comments below about the die off pattern..

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Re: Difference between Jr. & II (LIP)

  • 1medicwife1medicwife member

    hmmm.. that was pretty interesting!!

    I'm actually more curious about the jacket/coat conversation now though...lol

     

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  • ces25cces25c member

    I always thought the same as the second post on there (Jr becomes II if he names his son the ___ ___ III)

    I have no idea what the other poster is talking about that the father of a Jr. can't use the title Sr.  Even a quick google search found people going back 100s of years named Sr. 

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  • emylosemylos member
    I always laugh with the whole Jr thing because DH is a Jr according to his birth certificate and all official documents however he doesn't have the same middle name as his father!  I was always under the impression that to be a jr, then your name was supposed to be the same...
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    hmmm.. that was pretty interesting!!

    I'm actually more curious about the jacket/coat conversation now though...lol

    haha, basically i work in a hospital and when we check in patients we write a short description to cut down on yelling out the name, like if theres one person wearing a red shirt they can just walk over to the person and say, Are you Mr. John?? Instead of doing like a cattle call lol

    ANYWAYS, i always hesitate when i write jacket or coat because i'm not sure what they technically are.. or if it didn't matter.. so i asked my 2 co-workers

    I always thought a "jacket" was more formal, like a blazer or such.. and when i think coat i think like a nylon water proof type of thing...

    coworker 1 (woman in her 40's) thought opposite of me, coats are long and formal (like a trenchcoat, pea coat) and jackets are short nylon informal things

    coworker 2 (man in his 40's) said you guys are crazy they are the same thing and it doesn't matter...

    so i googled (can you tell we had a slow day?!) and came up with this.. so we were all kinda right in our own way, depending on which decade you looked at haha

    thats the coat vs jacket story!

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  • msmerymacmsmerymac member

    imageemylos:
    I always laugh with the whole Jr thing because DH is a Jr according to his birth certificate and all official documents however he doesn't have the same middle name as his father!  I was always under the impression that to be a jr, then your name was supposed to be the same...

     

    Ditto for my dad and grandfather. But my dad isn't a junior - never went by it, no one has called him that.

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  • ajdubya126ajdubya126 member
    Very Interesting! One of my biggest peeves is people using Jr.when their sons have different middle names than them! I never knew II could be used to name your child after an uncle or grandfather. If our baby is a boy we're naming him after my father-in-law and brother-in-law. Don't think we'll use the II.
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