# Advice for those new to monogramming and to nouveau snobs

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**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [August 15, 2006, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advice-for-those-new-to-monogramming-and-to-nouveau-snobs/368844 "2006-08-15T16:56:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2006, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advice-for-those-new-to-monogramming-and-to-nouveau-snobs/368844/61 "2006-08-16T19:39:28Z")

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All I know is that I read the thread title as “Advice for those new to mammogramming and to nouveau snobs” and was REALLY curious how the two were linked.

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**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2006, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advice-for-those-new-to-monogramming-and-to-nouveau-snobs/368844/62 "2006-08-16T21:59:28Z")

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[QUOTE=RSSchen]  
Many years ago I wanted to purchase a gift for a friend at _Things Remembered_.  
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Hey! Those were the morons who first got me pissed about this. Same time, too, many years ago. Different store, though, so stupidity must be a corporate standard.

> [@kittenblue](#):
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> As a professional engraver…going to make you look like an idiot…“fine, but everyone who comes to your door will know you are an idiot”…“how loved must her husband feel at this moment when she denigrates his name”

Where were you when I was single?

> [@Dewey Finn](#):
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> What bothered me here was the idea that the person was wearing someone else’s monogram. What’s the point of that?

I _know!_ But you know how _those people_\* think.

> [@Kyla](#):
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> What if you have FOUR initials, like I do? (Blame my parents for hyphenating.)

Both surname initials at equal heights with a hyphen, of course.

> [@Tabula Rasa](#):
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> (lots of useful information

But really, who wears legible clothing?

To the Greek scholars: I appreciate your input. I was going to tell you to piss off but then I remembered that I was planning to reply in the affirmative regarding the use of Greek plurals in that other thread and thought I should make an effort at being consistent.

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  - “Those people” being, of course, people who wear other people’s monograms, like they were hand-me-downs. As **Tabula Rasa** pointed out, hand-me-downs are best at several generations remove and in the same family. Otherwise you could have gotten them at the Salvation Army store.

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