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March Madsen and Gower are bizarre. In fairness to Geraldine, though, it’s pretty common for names to have that “-ine” ending. Agree it’s outdated though.
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Fascinating how familiarity with one famous person can make a name seem normal instead of "bizarre."
Gower seems perfectly normal to me (if rare) because I am old enough to be familiar with the choreographer Gower Champion, who was one of the best known Broadway performers during his lifetime. I was surprised to see when I looked him up that he's been dead since 1980.
He pronounced Gower to rhyme with "power" or "flower", by the way.
https://masterworksbroadway.com/artist/gower-champion/
Gower seems perfectly normal to me (if rare) because I am old enough to be familiar with the choreographer Gower Champion, who was one of the best known Broadway performers during his lifetime. I was surprised to see when I looked him up that he's been dead since 1980.
He pronounced Gower to rhyme with "power" or "flower", by the way.
https://masterworksbroadway.com/artist/gower-champion/
It's too close in look and sound to glower and dour and sour. Probably that's why it never got much use.