-Caveat Lector-
On Sun, 7 Jan 2001, Johannes Schmidt III wrote:
>Well, if I were to name myself after, say, the Murray River you would
>probably assume Murray was a male.
I would presume 'Murray' was someone's last name...geographical sites
such as rivers are usually named for a person's last name rather than
their first....
And so the Murray River could just as easily be named for Anne Murray...
>>it is the monster he is named after- not the lake.
>>ships and cars (and computers) are only feminine to men, aren't they?
>
>I thought it was an English convention. Do women refer to ships as being male?
I don't refer to them as any sort of gender. Neither do I assign gender
to cars, computers, or lakes. I think that is a male affectation...
>>and anyway- johnnie and willie end in ie and are not at all feminine, willie
>>in fact is another name for a penis.
>
>I would spell both with a 'y' on the end.
In English, the 'ie' ending is more common for the William nickname, when
applied to either a person or a male sexual organ. I can't remember when
I have ever seen 'Willy'.
As for the nickname for John, one sees Johnny and Johnnie about equally
(Johnny Carson and Johnnie Cochran)...as one also sees Jimmy and Jimmie
equally...
And one commonly sees the male nicknames "Eddie" and "Robbie"...almost
never see "Eddy" or "Robby"...
June
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