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ever notice...
(in best Andy Rooney voice)That it's only a certain type of surname that was usually handed down as a fn? Beverly, Ashley, Sidney, Cooper, Tucker? You never see people with the first name oh... Feldman, Rivera, Lefkowitz, Shucmacher, Lefebvre, Spinelli?Basically it's a relatively small collection of "white Anglo-Saxon Protestant" type surnames that turned into first names.This topic would make somebody an interesting research paper, no? :)
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Oh, I was writing this research paper! But there were no print sources, as in books. Thousands of articles, but my teacher needed a book. So I had to abandon it and switch to Sylvia Plath. :'( But she's very interesting, too. So, it wasn't so tragic. : )
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You know...I was thinking about this the other night. If I would have thought of this even last fall I could have written that research paper. Too bad my paper writing days in college are over.
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