to google

[Kim Braithwaite]

And don't forget Joyce (e.g., Kilmer).

Kim Braithwaite, Translator

      "Good is better than evil, because it's nicer" - Mammy Yokum (Al Capp)

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "William Ryan" <wfr at SAS.AC.UK>
To: <SEELANGS at BAMA.UA.EDU>
Sent: Friday, November 16, 2007 4:58 PM
Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] to google


> Evelyn is not common nowadays for boys but it used to be. Compare Leslie, 
> Vivian, Sidney, Marion (John Wayne was Marion), all old hermaphrodite 
> names.
> Will
>
>
> Paul B. Gallagher wrote:
>> William Ryan wrote:
>>
>>> ... As to the h>g transformation, the usual explanation, as far as I
>>> recall, is to do with Ukrainian/South Russian pronunciation of g in
>>> the 17th-18 c. I do remember hearing a lecture about Evelyn Waugh in
>>> Leningrad University in 1962 when the lecturer pronounced his
>>> subject's name as Evlin Wog. He is usually referred to now more
>>> phonetically as the oriental-looking Uo.  Given that great writer's
>>> snobbishness about being an English gentleman both forms no doubt
>>> have him spluttering in his grave.
>>
>> On a barely related topic, I've always wondered whether Waugh's parents 
>> "gave him a girl's name" or the name has evolved over time. I see from 
>> his bio that his first name was "Arthur" and "Evelyn" was his middle 
>> name, but I can't tell whether he was given the latter after a 
>> grandmother or something. And with a father named "Arthur" it would be 
>> reasonable for him to seek something more distinctive.
>>
>> Anyway, just musing in ignorance. Anyone know the answers?
>>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription
>  options, and more.  Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at:
>                    http://seelangs.home.comcast.net/
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 

-------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription
  options, and more.  Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at:
                    http://seelangs.home.comcast.net/
-------------------------------------------------------------------------