Re: The price of oil
Merlyne <[email protected]>
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BeH <[email protected]> wrote in news:[email protected]: > 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... > Pastries? Butter cookies? Teak furniture?