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Interesting Fact - Janet and John

In the United States, Janet and John were named Alice and Jerry.

(Everybody in the UK used to learn to read with Janet and John books. Not only did they learn to read, but they learnt their place in society. Women in the kitchen, baking cakes with their daughter Janet, men at work or in the garden with their son, John. That was it.)

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