New English (?) name: Jhan

[Paul Johnston]

There was Jan Berry of Jan & Dean fame, too.

Paul Johnston
On Mar 21, 2011, at 9:17 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:

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> Well, one thing is that, except for "jheri curl," this is only ex. of the
> sequence {jh} I've ever seen in English.
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> Also, the name is presumably - or potentially - unisex, rather like "Jan,"
> which, in English, I still think of in spite of the evidence as exclusively
> feminine. Just as "Evelyn" used to be masculine.
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> (The first masculine "Jan"  I ever heard of in English was the once
> famous/infamous Jan Bakker.)
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> JL
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> On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 8:48 PM, William Palmer <palmerwil at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> An innocent question...what is unique to "Jhan", that is not unique about,
>> say, "Beyonc=E9" or DeMontez" (Stitt)...Clemson's pointguard, for example?
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>> Bill P
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>> On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 6:13 PM, Victor Steinbok <aardvark66 at gmail.com
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>>> Probably from the same school of naming as Saffron and Frontine (or was
>>> Fronteen?).
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>>>    VS-)
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>>> On 3/21/2011 5:56 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>>>> Jhan Hochman of Portland Community College is the author of _Green
>>> Cultural
>>>> Studies: Nature in Film, Novel, and Theory_ (Moscow: University of
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>>>> Press, 1998).
>>>> JL
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