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in reply to a message by Pavlos
Most interesting, Pavlos! (Hope your headache and sore throat have recovered since Sunday ... VBG)
Byron crops up quite frequently among youngish adults in South Africa and also it seems in New Zealand etc, but I suspect in these cases it's an updated version of Brian. Certainly the ones I've known and/or encountered have no Greek links.
It's also possible (though not in Greece, no doubt!) that the mothers of little boy babies might remember the most dishy and dashing of all Romantic poets and aspire to something of the same. Here in South Africa we've got a young man playing international football whose given name is Macbeth after his mother's favourite school setbook.
Byron crops up quite frequently among youngish adults in South Africa and also it seems in New Zealand etc, but I suspect in these cases it's an updated version of Brian. Certainly the ones I've known and/or encountered have no Greek links.
It's also possible (though not in Greece, no doubt!) that the mothers of little boy babies might remember the most dishy and dashing of all Romantic poets and aspire to something of the same. Here in South Africa we've got a young man playing international football whose given name is Macbeth after his mother's favourite school setbook.
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