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HelpRe: did you ever read "Compromising Positions?"
in reply to a message by RoxStar
(I've written about this before)-until about a generation ago, it was usual, in my area, for all girls to have the name Marie as a first name, and the boys, Joseph.
They weren't, usually,called by these names;Marie Constance would be just called Constance.
Although sometimes it was hyphenated, as, Marie-Mai, or Marie-Blanche, and they'd then be called the whole name.
At one time, any French-speaking men in the Canadian military would be referred to as "Joe LeBlanc", because of all the Josephs, and Le Blanc being a common last name.
I don't know how the soldiers themselves felt about this, but it's pretty mild, so I rather expect they bore it patiently.
They weren't, usually,called by these names;Marie Constance would be just called Constance.
Although sometimes it was hyphenated, as, Marie-Mai, or Marie-Blanche, and they'd then be called the whole name.
At one time, any French-speaking men in the Canadian military would be referred to as "Joe LeBlanc", because of all the Josephs, and Le Blanc being a common last name.
I don't know how the soldiers themselves felt about this, but it's pretty mild, so I rather expect they bore it patiently.
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My sister's husband is French-Canadian (well, his parents were but they moved to the US before he was born so he's an American citizen) and she told me it was their tradition to give every boy the middle name Joseph and every girl the middle name Marie. Not the first name. Is this not correct?
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Probably.
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