new name you can use on your kid

[Joel S. Berson]

At 9/13/2011 09:42 PM, George Thompson wrote:
>Whatever happened to good old-fashioned names, like "Fretwell".

Or Wait Still, a prominent Winthrop of Massachusetts.

Joel


>      [William Vandrills, will carry gentlemen, their wares or their
>merchandise, from New-York to Philadelphia, in a boat that will "sail from
>New-York for Thomas Akin's, in South Amboy, every Monday and Thursday, in
>every Week, where a Waggon will be kept ready to proceed immediately for
>Fretwell Wright's in Burlington; and upon their Arrival there they will
>directly get a Passage to Philadelphia"; he keeps his boat at Whitehall
>Slip, or leave messages and letters with Capt. Lewis, "at the sign of the
>Devonshire"]
>      N-Y Mercury, December 18, 1752, p. 3, col. ?
>
>This seems to be a particularly hard-line Puritan name, like "Thankful",
>only more so -- I actually knew a "Thankful", a young woman in Maine, in the
>mid 1960s.
>
>GAT
>
>GAT
>
>On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 8:24 AM, Jonathan Lighter
><wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>wrote:
>
> > The computerized sales slip from the supermarket tells me that my cashier
> > was "Jherrica."
> >
> > Over 10,000 raw Google hits for "Jherrica," over 150,000 for "Jherica."
> >
> > To generalize from my experience, they should be mostly twentyish white
> > ladies with hair the color of blood.
> >
> > JL
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>Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre", Northwestern Univ.
>Pr., 1998, but nothing much since then.
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