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in reply to a message by RoxStar
Beverly was also an established male name. Its a surname, and therefore, despite loathing surnames on females (and in general for most cases), its been a long time tradition to pass on surnames to both females and males.
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ever notice...
(in best Andy Rooney voice)
That it's only a certain type of surname that was usually handed down as a fn? Beverly, Ashley, Sidney, Cooper, Tucker? You never see people with the first name oh... Feldman, Rivera, Lefkowitz, Shucmacher, Lefebvre, Spinelli?
Basically it's a relatively small collection of "white Anglo-Saxon Protestant" type surnames that turned into first names.
This topic would make somebody an interesting research paper, no? :)
(in best Andy Rooney voice)
That it's only a certain type of surname that was usually handed down as a fn? Beverly, Ashley, Sidney, Cooper, Tucker? You never see people with the first name oh... Feldman, Rivera, Lefkowitz, Shucmacher, Lefebvre, Spinelli?
Basically it's a relatively small collection of "white Anglo-Saxon Protestant" type surnames that turned into first names.
This topic would make somebody an interesting research paper, no? :)
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Oh, I was writing this research paper! But there were no print sources, as in books. Thousands of articles, but my teacher needed a book. So I had to abandon it and switch to Sylvia Plath. :'(
But she's very interesting, too. So, it wasn't so tragic. : )
But she's very interesting, too. So, it wasn't so tragic. : )
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You know...
I was thinking about this the other night. If I would have thought of this even last fall I could have written that research paper. Too bad my paper writing days in college are over.
I was thinking about this the other night. If I would have thought of this even last fall I could have written that research paper. Too bad my paper writing days in college are over.
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