Re: Name of Christian (was: Vocab #5)
| From: | Philip Newton <philip.newton@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, April 28, 2002, 6:22 |
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On 27 Apr 02, at 15:00, Danny Wier wrote:
> >I've never seen the name Christian (without trailing -e or -a) being
> >used in a female sense, though I keep hearing that it exists in the
> >US. Weird.
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> What about Christina? And there's the reporter Christiane Amanpour (her last
> name, ironically, is Iranian).
I would consider those both female (together with Christine). But plain
"Christian", spelled that way, I have only seen as a male name.
All four names (-ian, -ine, -ina, -iane) are reasonably common in
Germany.
Cheers,
Philip
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