The hambone redux

[Laurence Horn]

At 10:10 PM +0100 4/14/08, Michael Quinion wrote:
>Wilson Gray wrote:
>
>>  Sigh! One never knows, do one? I once googled my own name and
>>  discovered a woman named "Wilson Gray." And, can you believe it? also
>>  a native of Texas.
>
>Quentin Bryce has just become the first-ever woman governor general of
>Australia.
>
And there's Drew Gilpin Faust, the first-ever woman president of
Harvard.  Meanwhile, on the Biblical [-@]- naming front, I keep
forgetting that my students named "Micah" are likely to be male.

LH

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