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From the film's deleted scenes, chapter "Shipboard Life":
Bonden reads out the title, we are shown the subtitle and authorship:
If anyone has a screencap I would be happy to add it!
Bonden reads out the title, we are shown the subtitle and authorship:
DISEASES
MOST USUAL AMONG
SEAMEN
====================================================
AN Examination of Existing Conditions with particular
attention given to the Pervasive Corrupting Influence
of the GROG ration.
====================================================BY DR. S. E. M A T U R I N.
Of TRINITY COLLEGE, Fellow of the ROYAL SOCIETY
====================================================FIRST EDITION
If anyone has a screencap I would be happy to add it!
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Date: 2012-10-23 09:55 pm (UTC)That is the oddest thing...
I think that's why I kept thinking he was Jonathon. Because why even bother with an abbreviation for 'John'? Seems plenty short already.
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Date: 2012-10-23 10:42 pm (UTC)"Jno. is an abbreviation of the Latin Johannes. In medieval Latin this could be written as Jhohannes, abbreviated Jho. It has been suggested that the second letter (h) lost its ascender over the years, and came to be written as n. So the abbreviation became Jno."
I have no idea whether this is right or not - but it is an explanation of sorts I suppose.
*shrugs nonplussed*
(I wonder if anyone ever shrugs plussed?!)
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Date: 2012-10-23 11:36 pm (UTC)plussed - there's another one, alright.
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Date: 2012-10-24 04:13 pm (UTC)Medieval scribes must have got pretty tired of writing it, since every other man was called John (or else had some barbaric Welsh name for which any civilised scribe would substitute "John")
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Date: 2012-10-25 06:11 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-10-25 06:15 pm (UTC)Well, duh, but you can sign it as 'John' :P
So what's short for 'Johnathon'?
And if John can shorten to Jno I don't see why either Jonathon or Johnathon can't also shorten to Jno. English is weird.
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Date: 2012-10-25 06:29 pm (UTC)Jon or Jonny as a diminutive, but I guess it's not a common enough name to need a formal abbreviation. If it did, would it be Jno'n??
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Date: 2012-10-25 06:55 pm (UTC)In 2011 "Johnathan" ranked #240 in name popularity, and "Jonathan" ranked #31. There are several other sort-of commonish variants, like "Jonathon" with (#820) and without an 'h' (#612), and even less common variants.
So yeah, no-h beats with-h, but both are actually relatively common.
I expect the 'h' is in there sometimes for the same reason it is in "John" (#27). "Jon" (#687) without the h is much less common.
Maybe the UK is stricter with name spellings, but in the US variations are very common. For example, in 2011, "Stephen" ranked #229 and "Steven" #124.
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Date: 2012-10-26 11:16 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-10-25 09:16 pm (UTC)Jon might be but Jonathan doesn't shorten to 'Jack', (being a name with a different root and eytmology) and John does. So Jack is John, written Jno...
Yeah, makes no sense to me either, but that's the English language for you!
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Date: 2012-10-25 09:18 pm (UTC)