"Andrea"

[Jim Parish]

Wilson Gray wrote:
> 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.

Back in the early '80s I knew a young woman who went to great lengths to
convince people to pronounce her name "anDREa". As she was both attractive and
physically formidable, most people acceded fairly quickly.

Jim Parish
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