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"Yorkshire Couple Named Baby Diot Coke - in 1379 Naming your child after a popular soft drink could be seen as a little bit faddish but the parents of young Diot Coke might be forgiven – they gave their baby daughter the name way back in 1379...." http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=2628349
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Most unfortunate for when she got married -
"I Diot Coke take thee, More Oncoal - - - "
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I Diot Coke take thee, More Oncoal Oh, oh!  [holding sides e] They were both in blackface, no doubt. From Anna's link: names now considered to be masculine, such as Philip and Thomas, were once used for girls in the 14th century.
Redmond also found that names such as Godelena, Helwise, Idony, Avice and Dionisia were more popular than some of the names now considered traditional, such as Mary. Miss Thomas Aquinas? My daughter is very grateful that I vetoed my husband's choice for her name: Guinevere.
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So was there ever a child named Ru Barb Pye? (I've actually known someone named Ru)
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Last name Paul, by any chance?
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Beverly and Marion were both boys names originally. Any others that have switched gender that you know of?
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Beverly and Marion were both boys names originally. Any others?
Francis, Chris.
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Evelyn--
i know a greek man (well actually i know his wife)i was startled to learn his name was Athena.
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Beverly and Marion were both boys names originally. Any others?
Francis, Chris.
Pat
Robin
Adrian
I've also known girls named Michael and Sidney.
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Rhuby: "I Diot Coke take thee, More Oncoal - - - "
I don't get it, can you splain?
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My housemate's parents had neat reasons for naming their kids as they did. One boy looked a lot like father when he was born, and was named Troy, for True Reminder Of You. My housemate is named Lavinia, not after the character in Titus Andronicus, but because her parents combined their own names - Larry and Virginia (they didn't even know that Lavinia was a real name).
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I Diot Coke take thee, More Oncoal
I don't get it, can you splain?
Idiot...Moron...
Main Entry: coke
Pronunciation: 'kOk
Function: noun
Etymology: perhaps from dialect coke, colk core, from Middle English; akin to Swedish kälk pith
: the residue of coal
It took me a couple readings.
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give that lady a 7-up! 
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Connie is not a very common name but can be either male or female. As a male name it means wise and is a variant of Conrad (bold council) or Constant (steadfast or constant). As a female name it means constant and is a variant of Constance (constant, wise, knowlegeable). It's also a nickname for leprechauns in Ireland
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Kinda loses something if you're pronouncing Diot like Diet. I was trying to make the 7Up connection but warn't nothin clicking.
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As a male name it means wise and is a variant of Conrad (bold council) or Constant (steadfast or constant).
Connie Mack was Cornelius McGillicuddy. Cornelius is a Roman family name which possibly derives from the Latin element cornu "horn".
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pronouncing Diot like Dietaren't we? 7Up connectionwell, I was thinking the Un-Cola...
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The variants that I found listed for Cornelius are Corny and Corney. I'd rather be a Connie than a Corney meownself BTW, both my sisters have names that can go either way as well...Christy and Kelli. Kelli married a Kelley and for the life of us we can't think of a better way to refer to them (at least one that will stick!) than Kelli girl and Kelley boy.
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pronouncing Diot like Diet
aren't we?
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I was pronouncing in me noggin as /diyOt/, so it doesn't rhyme with /Idiy@t/. Slightly assonant.
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Idiot...Moron...here, sir. 
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The variants that I found listed for Cornelius are Corny and Corney.
or the much more common Neal. every neal i knew was hiding a Cornelius. (and a surprize.. a very italian Patty, was really a Pasquale. --confirmation required you to state your baptizimal name.. and the truth came out!)
(so sayeth Helen Mary Bernadette Patricia)
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As to boy's names becoming girl's names (espec in the Middle Ages - there was a fashion amongst the great and the good for calling their daughters by masculine names. Dunno why!)- you've all missed the one right under your noses! My given name is Hilary but I am most certainly masculine, as those of us gathered here who've met me will attest. EDIT:Do you remeber the debate over my sex when I first joined the board? I had great fun with that!
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I was gonna bring you up as an example, oh handsomest of masculines, but you beat me to it!
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He just won't be made an example of, will he?
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Leslie is heard for both men and women today.
There is also an ative Clan Leslie.
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My parents knew two couples named Lavergne and Shirley. In one case the Lavergne was male and the Shirley female and in the other case the Lavergne was female and the Shirley male. I know four couples with a Terry as half of the couple, two male and two female.
Laurie used to be a standard nickname for Lawrence.
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I once knew a guy named Claire Shirley, and I have a (male) friend in Italy named Andrea.
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I know in English Carol can be both male and female. In French it is only a female name.
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We had friends of the family named Gene and Carrol - phonetically, neither name is gender-specific, so they were always being mis-identified. In this case, Gene was the woman and Carrol was the man. [Their son had a boat called the "Dagny Taggart", which was my first knowledge of the Atlas Shrugged context of my name - so I'll never forget them!]
Also, I've got both male and female friends named Dana...
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Many years ago I was casually acquainted with a guy who was a sports writer for one of the DC papers, the Post, probably. His name was Shirley Povich. Heck of a nice guy.
I also hung around a crowd in which there was a lady named Shirly who was extremely well-endowed, and was known to many of us as Shirley You-Jest.
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