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Here is the link to today's column:
https://omaha.com/lifestyles/cleveland-evans-brian-boomed-in-the-early-70s/article_f594a5ec-cf8a-11eb-ac0a-63b97224579f.html
Since I only get 540 words for the column there is usually much I wanted to mention that I don't have space for. I wish I had had room to point out that Brian became popular in the UK in the early 20th century well before it did in the USA. The modal Brian in England right now is about 86 years old while the modal Brian in the USA is turning 49 this year.
I actually had a couple of sentences in the column I wrote about Brian being popular with Hispanic immigrant parents in the USA during the early 2000s, often respelled as Brayan because "ay" is pronounced like the English word "eye" in Spanish, but that got edited out.
https://omaha.com/lifestyles/cleveland-evans-brian-boomed-in-the-early-70s/article_f594a5ec-cf8a-11eb-ac0a-63b97224579f.html
Since I only get 540 words for the column there is usually much I wanted to mention that I don't have space for. I wish I had had room to point out that Brian became popular in the UK in the early 20th century well before it did in the USA. The modal Brian in England right now is about 86 years old while the modal Brian in the USA is turning 49 this year.
I actually had a couple of sentences in the column I wrote about Brian being popular with Hispanic immigrant parents in the USA during the early 2000s, often respelled as Brayan because "ay" is pronounced like the English word "eye" in Spanish, but that got edited out.
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I know a farming family, South African, one partner of Scottish descent, the other bilingual English-Afrikaans. They married in the 1930s and, family tradition says, were reading a farming magazine together when they found an article suggesting names for future children. As yet, they had none: they looked down the list and found that they both liked Brian, Graham and Ian. In due course, they gave those names, in that order, to their three sons. They didn't have a daughter; the name she would have got was Zilda! I've never seen it before, and it's not clear if it was on the list or not.
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