Re: The price of oil

On 11.10.2022 22.38, Merlyne wrote:
>>>>> Surely I've told you not to call me shirley in the past.
>>>> Maybe your teacher had an other pupil who should try harder. A pupil
>>>> named Shirley.
>>>>
>>> If I was in school in the 1940s, maybe.
>>>
>>> https://www.ssa.gov/oact/babynames/top5names.html
>> That young miss Temple has a lot to answer for. Also silly
>> canadians... Anyway not evertone has a top10 name - there is every
>> reason to believe that mine for example has never been particularly
>> popular.
>>
> Maybe not in the US of A.

I once looked it up in a New York phone book (it was long ago when phone 
books were a thing). I had a couple of columns of namesakes then.

> https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Danish_given_names#The_most_comm
> on_given_names_in_Denmark_1890_-_2008

Well, colour me striped and call me a maypole. But that was in the 1930s 
- I meant never in living memory.

BeH