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- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 12:24:15 +1000
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- From: LNCJB@WOMBAT.NEWCASTLE.EDU.AU
- Subject: Re: What's in a name?
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- >:My sons' father wanted to call his firstborn Peter. I resisted vehemently and
- >:finally got my choice of Christopher. In Uneducated Aussie English, '-er' is
- >:often 'schwa' and 'th' is reduced to 't'; the vowels in my surname also become
- >:an unstressed syllable.... so it was bad enough for me to have to put up with
- >:being called 'Carol in bed' without doing that to my son. :-(
- >
- >I don't get it. What is your surname anyway? Have you ever told us? (It
- >isn't in your headers)
- >
- >G
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- Some wordslers have in the past referred to my surname, so I assumed it was
- in the header..... evidently they must have got it from the members' list or
- I've been 'fingered' (Ooooohhh!)..... or they recalled that when I spoke of
- my Scottish father-in-law I gave his full name... Ergo! Hmmmm... was that one
- of my posts that you deleted by mistake? Just in case it was - it's BAIRD of
- the "Glencoe Baird's".
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- Carolyn
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