One possibility is that alternate spellings, initials, abbreviations and shortened forms of first names are common in the database.
One common linkage problem with using the name variable as a common identifier was that an individual's name could be represented in many different ways, with alternate spellings, initials, abbreviations and shortened forms of names making the linkage difficult.
Extensive and excessive use was made of initials and abbreviations, to the point of serious impediments to comprehension; lists of such abbreviations are standard adjuncts to modern handbooks on Latin epigraphy.
Reviewing the book in the New Yorker, Jim Holt drew attention to Wallace's "aesthetic fondness for the math textbook's visual display", which could "also explain his penchant for initials and abbreviations, space-saving measures which are hard to square with his energetic volubility".
Steenie". Initials and abbreviations were common, too, even after a lengthy close.
Initials and abbreviations are often written in all capital letters, although this differs depending on the word in general.
"[i]f two or more distinct initialisms (or sets of initials), acronyms or abbreviations appear in juxtaposition, separate each from the other with a space". "av bet din ehilah edoshah" is written as "a.b.d.
The Federal Election Commission recently released its list of "Pacronyms," which are the "acronyms, abbreviations, initials and common names" for federal political action committees that go by a nickname.
The manuscript, which bears the collector's initials and various abbreviations of his name, was acquired by Richard, 7th Viscount Fitzwilliam of Merrion, and together with the remainder of his music library and his art and medieval manuscript collections, it forms the core of the collections at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, England.
Punctuation is rare (accents and breathings have been added by a later hand) except for some blank spaces, diaeresis on initial iotas and upsilons, abbreviations of the nomina sacra and markings of OT citations.
This was a natural thing for all early civilizations, since the custom of writing out the names for large numbers was at first quite general, and the use of an initial by way of abbreviation of a word is universal.
