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- From: atovorni@engr.UVic.CA (dreas)
- Subject: Re: My name is worse than yours (was: Re:
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.220601.1658@sol.UVic.CA>
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- Organization: University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada
- References: <98916@netnews.upenn.edu>
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 92 22:06:01 GMT
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- In article 98916@netnews.upenn.edu, crawford@ben.dev.upenn.edu (Lauren L. Crawford) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov23.013409.9268@midway.uchicago.edu> cal@gsbux1.uchicago.edu (Cal Lott) writes:
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- >>>Oh no! You think you got it bad?
- >>>I get called things like "Raggedy" Andy, "Randy" Andy, "Handy" Andy, and
- >>>Andy "Panda." When my legal name's in print, "Is there more than one
- >>>'Andrea' here today?"
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- >And then there are the many ways one can screw up "Lauren." I've been
- >called Lou Ann, Luenna, Leeann, Lori, Laura, Laurel, Loren, Lorne and
- >Laureen. During a stay in Britain, a Yorkshireman, when told my
- >name, asked me why Americans felt this compunction to use silly names like
- >Heather, Justine and, of course, LAUREN when they could just use
- >down-to-earth names like the Brits use. Right, thought I, like Fiona and
- >Ivor and Prunella.
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- I'm awful glad to have been born a boy. My name would have been "Ursula" after
- my grandmother if I had been born a girl. When I was three years old, Mom was
- pregnant. The baby was a girl. I asked them to call her "Linda" instead because
- I liked that name. my seester still thanks me on occasion.
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