..... and its American use as a >first name is exemplified by (5) the composer Virgil Thomson, and (7) a >television character in "McHale's Navy". Are there any others, I wonder? > >Best wishes >Peter JVD BRYANT >Perth >Western Australia >[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Nine major-league baseball players, eight born 1894-1917, and one in the 20's, have been named Virgil: From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Sep 23 10:31:04 1999 X-Mozilla-Status: 0010 X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 >From mantovano-returns Wed Sep 22 15:12:53 1999 Received: ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) by wilsoninet.com (8.8.5) id PAA00471; Wed, 22 Sep 1999 15:12:53 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 23:09:31 +0100 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Leofranc Holford-Strevens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: VIRGIL: More Vergils References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Turnpike (32) Version 4.01 <5F+CKYUQomUVIsIr63$Pff++gY> Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Precedence: bulk Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-UIDL: 248a75c9f13094635017f5b01f0eaaec Status: U In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED] edu>, RANDI C ELDEVIK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >Yes, I have to acknowledge that those hillbilly associations do exist, in >the U.S. context; the same for the name Homer, unfortunately. But I don't >know how that came about, and I wish I knew. Homer and Virgil are my two >favorite poets, but if I had wanted to name my son in honor of one or both >of them, my husband would have rebelled--understandably, given the U.S. >ambience. > What's the British attitude? Doesn't anyone there give the name >Homer or Virgil to their son? After all, one meets Englishmen named >Terence, etc. Can't say I've ever come across or heard of a British 'Homer' or 'Virgil', high, low, or middle class. Leofranc Holford-Strevens *_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_* Leofranc Holford-Strevens 67 St Bernard's Road usque adeone Oxford scire MEVM nihil est, nisi ME scire hoc sciat alter? OX2 6EJ tel. +44 (0)1865 552808(home)/267865(work) fax +44 (0)1865 512237 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (home) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (work) *_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_* ----------------------------------------------------------------------- To leave the Mantovano mailing list at any time, do NOT hit reply. Instead, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message "unsubscribe mantovano" in the body (omitting the quotation marks). You can also unsubscribe at http://virgil.org/mantovano/mantovano.htm#unsub
