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Thread #115434   Message #2471154
Posted By: Uncle_DaveO
20-Oct-08 - 05:29 PM
Thread Name: Who is Tempy?
Subject: RE: Who is Tempy?
Many's the "man's name" that's feminized by the addition of the diminutive "-ie" or "-y".   And of course "-ette", "-etta", "-ina" and so on.

As I say, there may well have been specific female applications that I didn't get to in the Google results.

Dave Oesterreich