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I don't even have spaces or punctuation in my names, but certain US airlines will inexplicably truncate my middle name in half and append it onto my first name, so my boarding pass ends up with "LAST FIRSTMID" printed on it. Fortunately I've never been stopped for it; I'm sure they see it all the time.

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I don't think that's actually an error, that's just how they print boarding passes.

But it doesn't happen with every airlines, and when it _does_ happen my name appears that way in all of the electronic contexts too (e.g. when viewing the reservation online, in the email confirmation, etc.).

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