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I've seen references to Leat 7rice people, but never the thing itself. Lucky you!

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Where I live, Elma would be a contracted form of Elizabeth Maria and wouldn't attract attention. "White" Afrikaans-speaking South Africans traditionally had a very small name pool and, often, very large families with strong traditions about naming the first son after the paternal grandfather etc, etc so that family trees were very repetitive and so were family gatherings. So an Elma here could well have a cousin Bettie and another cousin Marielle, but they'd all be Elizabeth Maria and named after granny. (On the other hand, "coloured" Afrikaans-speaking South Africans might well have heard Alma as Elma and used a spelling pronunciation. It's a dialectal thing. Sorry to have to use these ghastly terms, straight back to the bad old days, but they do explain things sometimes.)

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Marymargaret looks very Catholic. Two saints sharing the same day, perhaps.

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I'd have thought that Sally is a bit of a stretch from Rosella. Interesting.