Re: The price of oil

BeH <[email protected]> wrote in news:[email protected]:

> 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. 

A guy I went to high school with texted me on my work phone a few years 
ago. He looked up my name + the city and got 2 hits. One was me and the 
other was Black girl who's an architect in the village where I live. 

> 
>> 
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Danish_given_names#The_most_co
>> mm 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.
> 

I notice that my name was popular in your country in the 1910s. I guess 
it took 50 years for it to become popular in the colonies.