Re: [conculture] Very Strange

[Padraic Brown <pbrown@polaris.umuc.edu>]

From: Padraic Brown <pbrown@polaris.umuc.edu>

On Fri, 30 Jul 1999, andrew wrote:
> Traditionally Brithenig speakers named their children after the previous
> generation.  The eldest of each sex was named for the husband's parents,
> then the wife's, then for uncles and aunts on each side.  This meant a
> limited range of names was maintained, but in modern times this tradition
> has become old-fashioned.

Yep; but this depends of area of the country.  Some parts of the land
undoubtedly modern practices parlously newfangled.

Padraic.

> 
> - andrew.
> --
> Andrew Smith, Intheologus 			hobbit@earthlight.co.nz
> 
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> 
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