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<div dir="ltr">I'm almost afraid to come out with new examples for that will cause many counter-examples to appear. But only almost. Some of these strange (weird) new<div>names in the US come from TV shows, where characters and the actors themselves regularly have such names. Kyle I am told, was the name of a character</div><div>in a popular TV show. I never heard the name before. An actress set to play Anne Elliot in Persuasion is named Dakota Johnson - now that is a Native American</div><div>word or name and is found in two US western states: North and South Dakota.</div><div><br></div><div>I see that in Mitford's Love in a Cold Climate a character named Lady Montdore associates Daisy among other names (like Nellie) with English housemaids.</div><div>I would have said Irish -- as in Ellen. Ellen is familiar as an Irish housemaid's name but it is also the name of heroines (the first I can think of is in a novel</div><div>by Mary Brunton called Discipline (perhaps 1815?). I have a personal story about the name Daisy I didn't have the nerve to tell before, but here goes. When</div><div>my older daughter had not yet been born, I was casting about for a name and I thought of Daisy. I like the name. But when I told my mother, she was </div><div>horrified; I told another friend who urged me not to. To both the name was somehow <span style="color:rgb(32,33,36);font-family:Roboto,arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">déclassé. So I didn't. She is Laura Caroline. I would have</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(32,33,36);font-family:Roboto,arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">preferred Caroline Laura but my husband said no no no. Caroline is too English. He was British (English).</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(32,33,36);font-family:Roboto,arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(32,33,36);font-family:Roboto,arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">Ellen (who am not Irish)</span></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, May 13, 2022 at 5:23 AM Stuart N. Clarke via Vwoolf <<a href="mailto:vwoolf@lists.osu.edu">vwoolf@lists.osu.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<div>If we’re discussing he name Daisy in the UK, then American examples are
irrelevant. </div>
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<div>(What extraordinary names Americans have – so have the British now.
And the spellings! You hardly ever come across Jill as an abbreviation of
Gillian – it’s always Gill with a soft g. Poor Mrs Woolf – she got an
(unpublished) letter from Alyse Gregory in 1924, and replied “Dear Mr
Gregory”. One used to feel with these weird spellings that, since in this
case it’s not spelled Alice, it must be pronounced Aleeze or some such.)</div>
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<div>And the French are irrelevant too:</div>
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<div>“They all seemed to be old friends of his [Sauveterre’s], called him
Fabrice and had a thousand questions to ask about mutual acquaintances in Paris,
fashionable foreign ladies with such unfashionable names as Norah, Cora, Jennie,
Daisy, May, and Nellie.</div>
<div>“’Are all Frenchwomen called after English housemaids?’ Lady Montdore asked
crossly ...”</div>
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(“Love in a Cold Climate” (1949), ch 4)</div>
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<div><b>From:</b> <a title="mefoleyuk@gmail.com">Mary
Ellen Foley</a> </div>
<div><b>Sent:</b> Sunday, May 8, 2022 12:47 AM</div>
<div><b>To:</b> <a title="mhussey@verizon.net">mhussey@verizon.net</a> </div>
<div><b>Cc:</b> <a title="jeremy.hawthorn@ntnu.no">Jeremy Hawthorn</a> ; <a title="stuart.n.clarke@btinternet.com">Stuart N. Clarke</a> ; <a title="vwoolf@lists.osu.edu">vwoolf@lists.osu.edu</a> </div>
<div><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Vwoolf] Daisy</div></div></div>
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<span style="font-size:14px">Then again, there’s Daisy Fellowes, aka
Marguerite Séverine Philippine Decazes de Glücksberg …</span></blockquote>
<div><br>ANd Daisy Buchanon in <i>The Great Gatsby, </i>1925 -- definitely
upper-crusty.</div>
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<div>mef </div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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