Re: CHAT: Essentialist Explanation

Keith Gaughan <kgaughan@...> wrote:
>
> From: Christophe Grandsire [mailto:christophe.grandsire@FREE.FR]
>
> > In French Marion is
> > epicene (though more often used for women than for men),
>
> Well, I've seen Marian and Marion used by women in english,
> but never by men. Wait, I tell a lie, I remember some cartoon in
> a Sunday newspaper that had a (male) character called Marion.
    The actor John Wayne's real name was Marion Morrison.

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