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in reply to a message by Daividh
"No one would have openly used Nan's spellings Dorathy and Danel..."
Well, I just chose those particular examples off the top of my head. However, if you'll check out the Office of the Chief Actuary's name lists at:
http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/NOTES/note139/note139.html
You will see that both "Dorthy" and "Danial" made it to the Top 1,000 Names of the 1950s list. :)
-- Nanaea
Well, I just chose those particular examples off the top of my head. However, if you'll check out the Office of the Chief Actuary's name lists at:
http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/NOTES/note139/note139.html
You will see that both "Dorthy" and "Danial" made it to the Top 1,000 Names of the 1950s list. :)
-- Nanaea
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Maybe in some places. Where I lived as a yard-ape in the late 50's was right outa Leave It To Beaver (downscale version). No divorces, no working moms, no laid-off dads , no second cars, no air conditioning. Stiflingly conventional, but we didn't realize it then. And then came the mid-60's...
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I'm tempted to ask when you first got color teevee.
-- Nanaea
-- Nanaea
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B&W TV (1951) - first on the block! Color (1966).
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The first kin on the block to watch new episodes of "I Love Lucy" :)
By the way, when watching US 50s movies and TV shows, it seems to me that American english back then had a strikingly more constipated intonation and accent. Didi people actually talk like that back then?
By the way, when watching US 50s movies and TV shows, it seems to me that American english back then had a strikingly more constipated intonation and accent. Didi people actually talk like that back then?
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