Names for baby - Diot Coke
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Yahoo/AP comes the story of British girl named Diot Coke.
Before you rech for the shotgun, read the article. This was in 1379.
bq. Archivist George Redmonds, writing in the organization's Ancestors magazine, discovered in his scrutiny of the birth archives that names now considered to be masculine, such as Philip and Thomas, were once used for girls in the 14th century.
bq. Redmonds 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.
Heh...
Posted by DaveH at March 18, 2004 1:21 PM