"new" masculine name: Farrah

[Charles Doyle]

I think of literary names represented in dialect; students find them endlessly perplexing (even in the South!): Faulkner's "Turl," for example, and Steinbeck's "Rosasharn."

--Charlie


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>Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:30:30 -0400
>From: American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU> (on behalf of Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM>)

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>What are you trying to say, Jon? Just because my country cousins use the local pronunciation-spelling of "Farrell" instead of the probably-unknown-to-them standard spelling is no reason to be pointing the finger at them! I have another cousin whose middle name is "Dial" [d&@l], i.e. Darrell.
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>-Wilson _Gray_
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>[I do but jest, of course. Except that, as a child, I really did think that my cousin's middle name was "Dial." Damned cool, I thought at the time.]
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>On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 1:14 PM, Jonathan Lighter
 <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com> wrote:

>>
>> Farrah Gray, born in the mid 1980s:
>> http://www.drfarrahgray.com/biography.html
>>
>> Guy.
>>
>> JL

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