Re: A perfect day for introducing myself
| From: | Herman Miller <hmiller@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, February 5, 2000, 3:02 |
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On Fri, 4 Feb 2000 12:38:36 -0500, Paul Bennett <paulnkathy@...>
wrote:
>Kim is a perfectly valid, if rare, UK male forename, AFAICT. My local TV
>station had a male news anchor called (ISTR) Kim Riley, and nobody batted
>an eyelid at it. There are certainly others, but I can't bring any other
>examples imediately to mind. Might it be (Old) Celtic in origin? I don't
>have my name-etymology book to hand.
Another example of a male Kim is Kim Long, the author of _Squirrels: A
Wildlife Handbook_. I assumed he was a she until I happened to read on the
back cover, "He lives in Denver".
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