ANSTHRLD - Name Documentation

[Timothy A. McDaniel]

"Kathleen O'Brien" <kobrien at bmc.com> wrote:
> At 11:02 PM 5/24/99 -0500, tmcd at jump.net wrote:
> >I am not sure whether it could be used as a feminine name per se --
> >for example, Crystal ingen Diarmuid, where in contect the forename
> >must be the name of a person with big wabbly bits up *there*
> >instead of little wabbly bits down *there*.
> 
> Per the following Laurel ruling:
> [Cristall Madeleine Moore] While cross-gender names have long been
> allowed in the SCA, mixed-gender names have not.  This has a
> masculine given with a feminine given with a surname. (Da'ud ibn
> Auda, LoAR May 1995, p. 16)

The precedent looks clear, but I'm not entirely convinced of the
logic.  Since there are examples of male names being used by women in
English contexts, I'm not entirely sure that we can ever really call
an English given name a "male name".

Daniel de Lincolia
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