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He had always been told that John was an Irish name, and one day I came along and was talking about names and he asked what his meant and I mentioned that Sean was the Irish form and he said "Oh that's my brothers name".

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He eventually asked his mom and she said "Well they sound different to me".
@@ [Obviously they couldn't help the John / Janet thing though].

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Also I have a friend named Evan John. He never told me his middle name, but it was called when we graduated, so after I came over and said "Evan, you never told me your name was John John."

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I don't totally mind if Dad is one form of John and son is another form... if the parents know what they're doing, it might even be sort of clever.

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And I understood the last sentence. :D