At 3:19 PM -0400 6/15/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am interested in names. My name is Lawrence. My grandfather's
name is Lawrence. I have two cousins called Lawrence and my Uncle
Lawrence is called Lawrence too, but at least we kept it in the
family!
All the best,
Lawrence (who, if he ever should have a son, will name him Lawrence)
In my family it was Johns. We got around that by naming our first
son Ian. Of course no one in Virginia can pronounce it properly, but
neither do they realize that it's synonymous with my first name.
I had a student whose first name was "Sonnet"--Sonnet Wright. I
asked, and she matter-of-factly told me that he parents were hippies.
Just graduated, actually, with the promise of becoming a very decent
composer. I had another with an even more fanciful name, which I
can't recall at the moment. Again, hippies.
But we have a fairly large population of foreign students, including
Asians, Turks, Pakistanis, Indians, those with Arabic or Farsi names,
etc. It's a little disconcerting to have no idea whether a given
name is male or female, not that it should make any difference! This
is rather different from names that are common in English which could
be either male or female, like the Adrian that was cited (although
there is the alternative Adrienne).
John, Abu Ian al-Virginiensis
--
John & Susie Howell
Virginia Tech Department of Music
Blacksburg, Virginia, U.S.A 24061-0240
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http://www.music.vt.edu/faculty/howell/howell.html
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