Jhaqueil

[Wilson Gray]

On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 12:19 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
> I suppose "Jhaquille" (with ornamental "h") would be too feminine, but then again I'd have predicted "Shaquille" was a female name before I came to know (and love) Shaq.

Youneverknow.

OTOH, Rochell-without-an-e, leader of the old R&B group, Rochell & The
Candles, was a guy, as were the Candles, though "Candles" seems a
pussy name for a guy group. Perhaps dropping the "e" of the standard
spelling was felt to be sufficient to render the name "Rochelle"
masculine, not that it would have mattered, since any fool could see
that he was a guy, as it can be seen that Wilson Gray of Dallas,
Texas, is a chick. And, probably, everyone here knows Crawford "Corky"
Feagin.

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