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Marion
by Sofia
10/2/2010, 5:39 PM
in reply to a message by BBH
Marian is an adjective to me in English and a male name where I live. I do like Mariana best though.

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- abbasdaughter   +4
10/3/2010, 7:10 PM
Interesting... It's not a commonly used adjective... Majored in ling. and have spoken En. all my life and have never heard it used as anything but a name. I suspect many on this site don't even know what it means. Definitely not one that came up in my TESL courses.
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- Sofia   +3
10/4/2010, 5:47 AM
I assume that Catholics would use Marian as an adjective more and that's the context I've seen it.
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- abbasdaughter   +2
10/4/2010, 5:34 PM
ah... so basically, something related to Mary then... that explains it... I'm not Catholic.
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- abbasdaughter
10/5/2010, 9:51 PM
Thanks.
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