perception of gender in names

[Benjamin Barrett]

In Korean, it's common knowledge that the vowels o and a are
masculine-sounding and (backwards c) and u are feminine-sounding,
whether in names or elsewhere.

Benjamin Barrett

> -----Original Message-----
> From: American Dialect Society
>
> A question has come over the transom from a UK
> correspondent. Advice,
> anyone?
>
> -- Mark A. Mandel
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 00:56:20 +0100
>
> Via the letters page of the Guardian newspaper, and then
> by email, I have
> contacted some people doing research into the perception
> of gender in names,
> and I was wondering if Dr. Whom (or anyone else) knew of
> any work already
> done in that area.
>