Re: OT: Anthroponymics
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, October 26, 2005, 22:55 |
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On 10/26/05, Wesley Parish <wes.parish@...> wrote:
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> Two of my mother's family take their personal names from their middle
> names - my
> mother and one of her brothers. Strange but true.
Not strange at all, I'd say. I know many folks who go by their middle names.
It's just a question of which name one likes better. Or which fits in better
- with brothers named Forman, Willard, Gerald, and Corbin, my Uncle Paul
Freeman must have felt that "Paul" wouldn't have fit in as well, so he's
been "Freeman" his whole life.
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Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>