[Sca-cooks] gender confusion

[Kathleen A Roberts]

On Wed, 1 Jun 2005 18:54:20 -0700 (PDT)
  Pat <mordonna22 at yahoo.com> wrote:
  This person accused me of having both a
>feminine persona and a male one.  She thought Mordonna 
>was a male name.  

and what about us who chose a male name to start with? ;) 
 early naming practices were not quite so gender-specific. 
 most people don't worry about which gender it is, but how 
to pronounce it! ;)

cailte
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