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Thread #95549 Message #1864366
Posted By: Uncle_DaveO
20-Oct-06 - 12:50 PM
Thread Name: Folklore: Is Scots a Language or a Dialect?
Subject: RE: BS: Is Scots a Language or a Dialect?
Taking this discussion westward across the Atlantic:
Some years ago, some friends here in Indianapolis, Phil and Jean ("JEEN", not "Zhan") Smith had occasion to move to Quebec for work reasons.
When the family produced a girls baby, they named it for the mother, Jean.
"No," they were told by the Francophone officials, "you can't name a girl 'Jean'. That's a man's name. It must be 'Jeanne', or choose some other name."