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in reply to a message by Lily
I know an Anna Jane. Nice name. Not so keen on Mary Jane - Spiderman, shoes and stoners, and it sounds a bit sing-songy - but it's not unusable.
'Plain jane' is in the dictionary as a term for an unattractive woman; reference.com says its use is attested from 1912. Jane is still used as a generic slang term for a woman - 'a jane' in some parts of the US. In the UK, it was pretty common - in the top 100 from 1904 until 1984, and would have been for a long time before that, had there been charts. It reached #7 here in 1964.
I like it, but with a fancy middle name, like, say, Augusta.
'Plain jane' is in the dictionary as a term for an unattractive woman; reference.com says its use is attested from 1912. Jane is still used as a generic slang term for a woman - 'a jane' in some parts of the US. In the UK, it was pretty common - in the top 100 from 1904 until 1984, and would have been for a long time before that, had there been charts. It reached #7 here in 1964.
I like it, but with a fancy middle name, like, say, Augusta.
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