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On Friday 13 June 2014 at 12:43:37 AM, in <mid:201406122343.s5cnhbsa053...@fire.js.berklix.net>, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > Fran & Stac[ie|y] seem female American first names to > me (British). Fran is short for Francis/Frances, so is clearly (to me, at least) androgynous. And is fairly common in the UK. Stacy Keach is a famous male, and the only male I have heard of with that first name, which is usually used for a female and spelled -ey or - -ie. > Leslie is an indeterminate British name. Except it is another with gender-variant spellings, this time usually - -ey for a female and -ie for a male where I come from (ignoring the modern trend to invent your own spellings, which is a different story). > Jean would be an indeterminate name for all of {gender, > nationality, & pronunciation} :-) Isn't Jean usually female in English-speaking countries and male in French-speaking countries? > Hurricanes now alternate male & female. I'm sure they used to be male names one year and female names the next, but they seem to now alternate within the same year > Cars & bikes get no names though some boats foolishly > get called She. A lot of people call their car "she" as well.Never understood that. - -- Best regards MFPA mailto:2014-667rhzu3dc-lists-gro...@riseup.net No matter what a man's past may have been, his future is spotless. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iPQEAQEKAF4FAlOajf9XFIAAAAAALgAgaXNzdWVyLWZwckBub3RhdGlvbnMub3Bl bnBncC5maWZ0aGhvcnNlbWFuLm5ldEJBMjM5QjQ2ODFGMUVGOTUxOEU2QkQ0NjQ0 N0VDQTAzAAoJEKipC46tDG5p8GUD/0XyjZbZWoUmrw4zE+WPDDcMaiga1JvtkXzK zd/K3gxkE71cMXBXQ/ffE9wT8NFt9NDaf/kXQkVbb5nlyVhFycAJdgsGtZ6zHLJX /mIb7IB60W7cKUpn4cNHqHtkGKGNXIQzg7Z1FKB8yvc3pneciqpHjrXxh1Se2LsL fPtVJDK1 =Cqqn -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users