"Tristen" now a feminine given name

[Wilson Gray]

This isn't quite OT, but, at the LSA Summer Institute at Chapel Hill
in 1972, I met a local woman named "Wilsonia." Her  friends called her
"Sonia."

-Wilson

On 1/29/06, Jesse Sheidlower <jester at panix.com> wrote:
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> On Sun, Jan 29, 2006 at 08:40:15AM -0800, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
> > A new era in Arthurian unisex onomastics dawned thirty-two years ago with the naming of future screenwriter and film actress "Tristen Skyler."  Skyler is familiar to all viewers of the film _Book of Shadows: Blair Witch Project II_ (2000), two-star sequel to the critically acclaimed no-star _Blair Witch Project_ (1999).
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> There's also Tristan Taormino, a female sex columnist.
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> Jesse Sheidlower
> OED
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