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[djador.livejournal.com]

I work with a guy named Cortney..I always assumed it was spelled Courtney but the other day I was writing his name down and he told me there's no u. When I asked why he said 'because I'm not a girl.'

So..does leaving out the 'u' make it any more masculine? Is Cortney one of those names like Ashley or Stacy that was originally a boy's name?

I also think it's kind of funny that the newest employee in Cortney's department is an older guy named Claire. Did that one used to be a male name too?


By the way..I love that Cortney is named Cortney..I'm a fan of girl names on boys. lol

Edit: I forgot about this one. I took a resume from a teenage girl today..and her name was Johnette. =/

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[colliemommie.livejournal.com]

Courtney, Ashley, Stacy, etc. are all very old family/last names, mostly from the Norman French. That's why you get so many in the South, a fair number of boys are still given mom or grandma's maiden name as a first name, and a lot of people around here are Anglo-whatever.

[singhappy02.livejournal.com]

Glad my Southern family doesn't follow that rule. We'd have a bunch of kids named Crowder or Lovelace running around.

Cut to me, vomiting a little in my mouth.