[ladyjane]

Anyone who has read an etiquette book or had a grandmother who had memorized many etiquette books would know the difference between junior and II.

Naming a child with the same name as the father and appending II rather than junior is the product of ignorance or pretension.

[Fred Nerks]

...Naming a child with the same name as the father and appending II rather than junior is the product of ignorance or pretension.

NOT IN ENGLAND. And Kenya was an english colony.

[Fred Nerks]

...Anyone who has read an etiquette book or had a grandmother who had memorized many etiquette books would know the difference between junior and II.

I just noticed, is that why you call yourself ladyjane Royalty, are we?

You could be ladyjane the second, and if you named a daughter ladyjane, she could be ladyjane the third.

And she could write Ladyjane III requests the pleasure of your company for afternoon tea... if you lived in England.

[Bubba Ho-Tep]

Naming a child with the same name as the father and appending II rather than junior is the product of ignorance or pretension.

We're talking colonial native bourgeois class here. Pretension is a strong possibility. And ignorance isn't far behind.