"new" masculine name: Farrah

[Jonathan Lighter]

Wilson's explanation is as good as any.

JL



































JL



On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 4:02 PM, Charles Doyle <cdoyle at uga.edu> wrote:

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