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Thread #62934   Message #1076751
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
20-Dec-03 - 07:30 AM
Thread Name: Songs for white slaves?
Subject: RE: Songs for white slaves?
Maggie Gordon? Peggy Gordon? I can't see that there's anything more sellable about the latter. But it seems to me, using the plosive consonant "P" instead of the nasal consonant"M", it just is better for singing out, and I'd assume thta's where the change comes in.

Anyway they are both versions of the same name, Margaret. He might well have called her both ways.