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in reply to a message by queenv
I vastly prefer Gladys. Ethel had a brief spasm of fashionability (probably isn't a word, but you know what I mean) but then descended into the lower levels of society and from there into comedy. And there are many worse things to be called than Glad.
I imagine that somewhere on Youtube or similar there might be some old BBC radio comedies featuring "The Glums". These were a family of pub-crawling father, mother who took to her bed long ago and never reappeared, cretinous son Ron and Ron's dim girlfriend Ethel, known as Eth, who tries in vain to civilise the rest of them. Enough to put anyone off for life!
I know a Gladys in her mid-20s, which is unexpected. Her family left the DR Congo when she was a toddler: they are Catholics and speak French at home, and I'm sure her Western name was always Gladys, though no doubt she had another name in a local language. Where the name Gladys came from, I don't know. The only other ones have been seriously older women, one from Scotland and one from Yorkshire.
I imagine that somewhere on Youtube or similar there might be some old BBC radio comedies featuring "The Glums". These were a family of pub-crawling father, mother who took to her bed long ago and never reappeared, cretinous son Ron and Ron's dim girlfriend Ethel, known as Eth, who tries in vain to civilise the rest of them. Enough to put anyone off for life!
I know a Gladys in her mid-20s, which is unexpected. Her family left the DR Congo when she was a toddler: they are Catholics and speak French at home, and I'm sure her Western name was always Gladys, though no doubt she had another name in a local language. Where the name Gladys came from, I don't know. The only other ones have been seriously older women, one from Scotland and one from Yorkshire.
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