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[Paul B. Gallagher]

William Ryan wrote:

> 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.

Thanks. I had no idea Evelyn, Vivian, or Marion could ever be masculine; 
I did know Leslie and Sidney swung both ways. ;-)

Saturday Night Live had a series of skits one year about "Pat" and 
"Chris" and a couple of other characters with intentionally ambiguous 
names where the other characters struggled to classify them. Pretty 
lame, but whatever. ;-)

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_(Saturday_Night_Live)>

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