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- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 09:43:38 +1000
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- Subject: Re: What's in a name?
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- >A friend swears he had a schoolmate named Dick Face.
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- Richard Face is one of our local politicians.... Member for Charlestown.
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- >I knew a woman
- >name Carol Beavers who named her daughter Candy. Obviously, some
- >parents do not remember adolescents' bent toward and susceptibility to
- >cruelty. But then, that assumes the parents themselves are not cruel.
- >
- >* Alt-Brad *
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- My sons' father wanted to call his firstborn Peter. I resisted vehemently and
- finally got my choice of Christopher. In Uneducated Aussie English, '-er' is
- often 'schwa' and 'th' is reduced to 't'; the vowels in my surname also become
- an unstressed syllable.... so it was bad enough for me to have to put up with
- being called 'Carol in bed' without doing that to my son. :-(
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- Carolyn
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