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Thread #154641   Message #3629409
Posted By: Lighter
31-May-14 - 08:02 PM
Thread Name: Origins: The Flowers of the Forest (Jane Elliot)
Subject: RE: Origins: The Flowers of the Forest (Jean Elliot)
Maybe so, Q, but the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, The Yale Book of Quotations, and the Cambridge History of English Literature all prefer "Jane." Many sources, like the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (which prefers "Jean"), give one or the other as an "alternative."

"Jean" sounds more Scottish, but there seems to be no real consensus as to which form is correct.