Re: [Mid] Funny Names.....

> Date: Thu, 4 Dec 1997 17:58:11 -0600 (CST)
> From: Eloise Beltz-Decker <eloise@ripco.com>
> To: sca-middle@dnaco.net
> Subject: Re: [Mid] Funny Names.....
> Reply-to: sca-middle@dnaco.net

> Well, urban legend or not, I do indeed know a young lady named
> Female. Pronounced feh-MAH-lay. Darned if I know ... but there does seem
> to be a huge flock of young African-American girls my age or younger with
> ... ahem, imaginative names. M

There is a recent book on American naming practices (heard the author
interviewed, can't remember the title). Part of the study was
comparing enrollments from elementary schools in different
demographic areas. Lower socio-economic groups showed a much higher
percentage of "unique" names, while more middle and upper had more
traditional names and more repetitions. (remember when every
elementary class had at least 3 Chad's?) There was one Chicago
shcool which had NO duplicate names at all!

Berwyn
Unique in person, if not in name.

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Received on Fri Dec 5 01:28:59 1997