"Andrea"

[Jonathan Lighter]

You mean the _Andrea Doria_ was named for a guy ?

  Who knew ?

  JL

Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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Sender: American Dialect Society
Poster: Wilson Gray
Subject: "Andrea"
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For a very long time, it seems to me, a distinction was made between Englis=
h
"ANdrea," a feminine name, and Italian "anDREa," a masculine name equivalen=
t
to English "Andrew." Recently, I've noticed that there are a lot of women
and girls being addressed as "anDREa." Now, I've just heard an
Italian-American guy named Salvatore Piazza refer to his wife as "anDREa."
If the distinction no longer matters even among Italian-Americans, what can
you do? Another one bites the dust. Sigh.

-Wilson Gray




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