[Sca-cooks] gender confusion

[Mark Hendershott]

At 07:15 AM 6/2/2005, you wrote:
>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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Can't remember that I've ever met an SCA male called Jocelyn.  A perfectly 
good early French male name.

Simon Sinneghe
Briaroak, Summits, An Tir