Re: My column on Edgar
in reply to a message by clevelandkentevans
A distant branch of my family tree contains a set of four brothers, born in the UK at the end of the 19th - beginning of the 20th centuries and came to South Africa as children. They were, in age order, Cecil, Campbell, Frederick and Edgar. Apart from them, I've never met or encountered a single Edgar in South Africa at all; its sounds wouldn't work well in Afrikaans, which could account for it.