Re: CHAT: Essentialist Explanation

> > epicene (though more often used for women than for men),
> > but I was under the  (false obviously) impression that it
> > was the other way round in English.
>
> 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.
> It's one of those odd names that could refer to either sex I
> guess, just like Mary.
>
Marian is used as a men's name in Slovak (I know this from the three
hockey playing brothers who played in the 1980s for Quebec Nordiques -
Peter, Anton and Marian Stastny).

---ferko