On 22 Apr 2007, at 10.55, Andrew Black - lists wrote:
It is what we used to call "Christian Name" in our less
multicultural and more European/ British supremacist days. Ie the
Andrew of "Andrew Black".
What do you call it in US?
I almost exclusively hear "first name". I'm familiar with "given
name" and "forename", but I don't hear those much in actual usage.
Maybe it's a regional thing; I'm from the Northeast. (After all,
what's called "American English" is really a whole bunch of related
but varying regional dialects and accents. Non-Americans might not be
able to see such a difference, but then again, a lot of Americans
can't tell the difference between a British accent and an Australian
accent, let alone an Australian accent and a New Zealand accent.)
