Re: The price of oil

On 12.10.2022 13.34, Merlyne wrote:
> 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.

Ahem. We don't have any colonies (any more). But yes we danes have 
always been on the forefront on cultural issues...

BeH