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Scott Fitzgerald or F. Scott Fitzgerald?

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BobbyMar 13, 2010
 

 
This is just a genuine query that has me truly and utterly flabbergasted. in an episode from 2009, the panelists were, Paul Merton, Kit Hesketh-Harvey, Gyles Brandreth and Shappi Khorsandi, and there was a subject about American author F. Scott Fitzgerald, but the subject on the card was simply 'Scott Fitzgerald'. This is just confusing because I read 'The Great Gatsby' in college and he has always been called 'F. Scott Fitzgerald' but yet the people on Just a Minute drop the F like it never existed. Its printed on all his bloody books 'F. Scott Fitzgerald', so I'm curious as to what kind of illiterate moron decided to drop the first initial from the name of one of the greatest authors in American history?

I mean, we in the states don't refer to J.K. Rowling as simply 'Rowling'? So what the hell is going on? I mean, surely if F. Scott Fitzgerald truly is one of Christopher Nicholas Parsons' favorite authors, then why didn't he raise a big stink about the fact that someone left the first initial off of the man's name?

I mean for someone that goes to great lengths to make grammatical alterations to 'What I Got For Christmas' and change to 'What I Was Given For Christmas', it just seems odd that he would let something like this slide.

 
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