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From: "Johannes Schmidt III" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Nessie is a feminine name, it ends in a 'ie'.
In this case, I believe it is based on "Ness", as in the lake in Scotland with the
purported monster...
> His/her gender is irrelevant. But if someone is called Tom,
>or Hank, or William, aren't I entitled to assume they are male?
What about the actress Michael Learned? Or the fact that John Wayne's real first name
was Marion?
What about those people whose first names are Robin or Chris?
>Similarly 'Merlin' is (to my knowledge) an exclusively male name,
>taken from the figure Merlin from the King Arthur myth cycle,
>who is always portrayed as male.
Actually, I believe originally the term 'merlin' was used as a title, and only became
associated as a personal
name due to the Arthurian legends. Somewhat akin to the names "Don" and "Donna",
which originally were titles
of Spanish nobility (e.g., "Don Juan", "Donna (or Dona with the squiggle over the 'n')
Maria"), but later were
used as 'Christian' names in and of themselves.
June
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