Re: Same name (was Re: Brithenig-heads)

taliesin the storyteller wrote:

> Other names from the same... Jan, Jon, Jo, Hans, Ian, Sean, Ivan, Janne,
> Yvonne, Jane, Jean, Jeanette, Joan, Hanna, Henny, Anne... does any other
> name have *that* many localized variants?
"Elizabeth" has dozens within English alone:  Elizabeth, Beth, Betsy, Betty,
Eliza, Liz, Liza/Lisa, Lisbeth/Lizbeth, etc. etc.

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