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From: lilandbr@scn.org (Leland Bryant Ross)
Subject: Re: margarine
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Date: Sat, 21 Sep 1996 22:15:11 GMT
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Reposting article removed by rogue canceller.


In a previous article, jkrobert@students.eisc.edu (Jason Roberts) says:

>I have seen Margarie ( a form of the name Margaret) given as an example of
>such a word. However, I have never actually heard someone be called
>Margarie.

Neither have I, but I've heard several people and at least one cat be 
called "Marjorie".  "Margarie" as a diminutive (or corruption) of 
Margaret looks to me like a simple case of someone saying "To heck with 
spelling conventions, let's name her something *unique*"--a mild case of 
the "Moon Unit Zappa Syndrome".  (It seems to me that men named Kelly are 
almost always named Kelly, but women named Kelly are frequently named 
Kelli or Kellee or Kellye or even odder.)  On the other hand, I *have* 
met both Margarets named Margie with a hard g and Margarets named Margie 
with a j sound....

Leland

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