"Jay" as female name

[Joel S. Berson]

At 12/4/2010 09:15 AM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>The only "Jays" I've known or heard of have been male. Till now.

You haven't heard of Jay-Lo?

But imagine arriving as an anxious pre-teen at a new middle school*
and finding that in my grade of merely 80 kids there was another Joel
-- and it was female.

* Actually, it didn't fit today's stereotype of hell and it wasn't
called 7th grade but rather First Form.

Joel

>Jay Newton-Small, _Time_ magazine Congressional correspondent, born ?ca1979:
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>http://www.c-spanvideo.org/jaynewtonsmall
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>JL
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>"If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."
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