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Paul B. Gallagher
paulbg at PBG-TRANSLATIONS.COM
Sat Nov 17 17:33:45 UTC 2007
William Ryan wrote:
> Evelyn is not common nowadays for boys but it used to be. Compare
> Leslie, Vivian, Sidney, Marion (John Wayne was Marion), all old
> hermaphrodite names.
Thanks. I had no idea Evelyn, Vivian, or Marion could ever be masculine;
I did know Leslie and Sidney swung both ways. ;-)
Saturday Night Live had a series of skits one year about "Pat" and
"Chris" and a couple of other characters with intentionally ambiguous
names where the other characters struggled to classify them. Pretty
lame, but whatever. ;-)
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_(Saturday_Night_Live)>
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