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[Opinions] Re: American Sounding Names
by Pie
11/12/2009, 3:30 PM
in reply to a message by jennifer
Would definitely agree about Jennifer. No idea why it didn't catch on here, but I've never met one who wasn't American. I know two women called Jenny, but they're both short for something else.
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- Rose-Berry   +2
11/12/2009, 3:53 PM
Really? There was a Jennifer in my year (and a Jenni) and I work with a Jennifer known as Jen/Jenny. I have known a few so I think of it as being a fairly typical name although nowhere near as popular as in America. One thing I do notice is that Jenny is a common nickname here but it seems in America Jennifer is usually just shortened to Jen. I could be wrong about that though.
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- Pie
11/12/2009, 5:34 PM
I've never met any personally, but thinking about it some more, there's Jennifer Saunders, and Jenni Murray from Radio 4, and Jenny Agutter, and Jenny Jones who used to head the Green Party, and probably plenty more famous British Jennys. So you're right, it's not that uncommon here. :)
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- jennifer
11/12/2009, 4:12 PM
From my experience, I've never met or heard of a Jennifer/ Jenny/ Jen from Great Britain. When I was a kid/ teen, we usually were Jenny. My cousin's wife (the other Jennifer Marie) is always Jen, and I'm Jenny. At work, I'm Jennifer, or Jen if a coworker wants my attention. That could be related to the age of the person, though. Jenny seems to informal for a workplace to me.
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