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Old Apr 22, 2008 | 2:51 am
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Originally Posted by caolfhionn
::waves at SMF TSO:: I'm an airline agent in term B!

We have plenty of people who book tickets using a middle name as their first, nicknames, ethnic legal names changed to a simple "Nancy" etc and I have yet to hvae anyone come back downstairs because TSA hassled them.
For people from parts of East Asia -- Hong Kong or Sinapore for some examples -- to have a Chinese name and then some Anglicized or Anglican name is a quite common thing to see. There is also the transliteration issue that can make for quite some variance in spelling in the Roman alphabet we use in English.

I have seen some Norwegians and Danes hassled at US airports because the way the transliteration is sometimes done for some characters in their names has gotten some TSA employees' panties twisted, but at other times they go through just fine without the "ID does not match the name" "secondary" security selection.
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