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He is exactly that.
He's forgotten more about names than all the rest of us know put together.
You just made yourself look really crass.
Before you criticize a man, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, when you criticize him, you're a mile away and you have his shoes!
Steve Martin
He's forgotten more about names than all the rest of us know put together.
You just made yourself look really crass.
Before you criticize a man, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, when you criticize him, you're a mile away and you have his shoes!
Steve Martin
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This message was edited 9/12/2019, 6:53 PM
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Thanks to you and every one else for your support. I will confess your comment about my forgetting more about names that the rest of you know made me laugh. :) That's what I get for being 68 now and having been interested in and actively researching given names for 60 years.
It doesn't mean I can NEVER be wrong -- I would hope that if someone has evidence they've found that corrects a mistaken impression I have about any name they'd politely point it out. With the internet there is a lot more data out there to look at the history of names than was available just a few years ago and I am constantly learning new things myself. For example, a few years ago when writing a column on the name Leanne I was very surprised to see from census records that it's been around since the early 1800s as a variation of Leanna, which goes back to the 1600s itself.
There is always more to learn, and I'm sure that includes things about American colonial names and "abstract quality" names.
It doesn't mean I can NEVER be wrong -- I would hope that if someone has evidence they've found that corrects a mistaken impression I have about any name they'd politely point it out. With the internet there is a lot more data out there to look at the history of names than was available just a few years ago and I am constantly learning new things myself. For example, a few years ago when writing a column on the name Leanne I was very surprised to see from census records that it's been around since the early 1800s as a variation of Leanna, which goes back to the 1600s itself.
There is always more to learn, and I'm sure that includes things about American colonial names and "abstract quality" names.
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Leanna goes back to the 1600s? Really?
That is really cool.
That is really cool.
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You're welcome! I find those little fsnippets pretty darn interesting. (I always think of Leanne as an early 1970s name, since I seem to have run into a disproportionate number of Leannes in just that age range.)
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