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Thank you for the reference: it is certainly horrifying, and I quite understand your reaction. But it doesn't have those connotations outside the Russian/Ukrainean world. In English it is acceptable though not popular to use first-name initials to refer to someone, though not usually as a 'name' to call them by. 'I'll visit Aunt M and Uncle J on Sunday' would more often be written than spoken, though it could be. And if an initial sounds like a name - J = Jay, K = Kay - then that works too.