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in reply to a message by Realisticmind379
I would never use Gordon, but I have a slight soft spot for it because of the human character Gordon on Sesame Street.
I don't know any Gordons personally, and strangely, nearly all the real Gordons I know about and nearly all the ones in fiction are Canadian. Is Gordon a very popular name in Canada?
Don't like Gordy. It makes me think of someone who is like a gourd.
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!
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I don't know any Gordons personally, and strangely, nearly all the real Gordons I know about and nearly all the ones in fiction are Canadian. Is Gordon a very popular name in Canada?
Don't like Gordy. It makes me think of someone who is like a gourd.
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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Gordon is a Scottish ln, and there were a lot of Scottish immigrants to Canada at one stage. Perhaps that's why. Fwiw, my friend says that her ln, Gordon, belonged to a Scot who joined Napoleon's army (poverty at home, pre-Industrial Revolution?) and stayed behind rather than retreat from Moscow. Married a Russian Jew, and the rest is history.
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I was trying to think about it, and I guess Gordon is a popular name in Canada, but only for people of certain generations. We have some famous Gordons who are considered cultural legends, and I know of a few Gordons.... but still, nobody under age 50.
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