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Male or female names
I sometimes feel hard to figure out the sex of a first name. Is there any general way to tell a first name is for males or females? or I have to become familiar to common names first?
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[nq:1]I sometimes feel hard to figure out the *** of a first name. [/nq] No, there isn't. The reason is that English is a crazy mix of many languages Anglo-Saxon, Latin, French, German and so on, each of which may or may not have had general rules for determining gender, but even when they did, the rules were not the same as those of other contributing languges.
- [nq:1]I sometimes feel hard to figure out the *** of a first name.
- [/nq] No, there isn't.
- The reason is that English is a crazy mix of many languages Anglo-Saxon, Latin, French, German and so on, each of which may or may not have had general rules for determining gender, but even when they did, the rules were not the same as those of other contributing languges.
- There are some suffixes that are used to transform a male name into a feminine version that you can trust to some extent though.
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[nq:1]I sometimes feel hard to figure out the *** of a first name. Is there any general way to tell a first name is for males or females?[/nq]
No, there isn't. The reason is that English is a crazy mix of many languages Anglo-Saxon, Latin, French, German and so on, each of which may or may not have had general rules for determining gender, but even when they did, the rules were not the same as
No, there isn't. The reason is that English is a crazy mix of many languages Anglo-Saxon, Latin, French, German and so on, each of which may or may not have had general rules for determining gender, but even when they did, the rules were not the same as
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[nq:1]I sometimes feel hard to figure out the *** of a first name. Is there any general way to tell a first name is for males or females? or I have to become familiar to common names first?[/nq]
There are very few reliable rules. Names that end in -ie are often for women (Marie, Angie, Billie, but Eddie for men). Indeed, a fair number of feminine forms of first names end in -e (Lynne, Anne), o
There are very few reliable rules. Names that end in -ie are often for women (Marie, Angie, Billie, but Eddie for men). Indeed, a fair number of feminine forms of first names end in -e (Lynne, Anne), o
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