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From: robison@eosp1.UUCP (Tobias D. Robison)
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Re: What's in a Name
Message-ID: <1267@eosp1.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 21-Nov-84 12:47:22 EST
Article-I.D.: eosp1.1267
Posted: Wed Nov 21 12:47:22 1984
Date-Received: Thu, 22-Nov-84 06:08:19 EST
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Reply-To: robison@eosp1.UUCP (Tobias D. Robison)
Organization: Exxon Office Systems, Princeton
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Summary: 

>While I would find "Christine" an unusual name for a Jewish woman,
>I wonder why Mary is considered so odd.

"Mary" and "Maria" are extremely rare Jewish names for essentially
the same reason that "Christine" is not a Jewish name.  "Mary"
and "Maria" are very strongly identified with the mother of jesus.

  - Toby Robison (not Robinson!)
  {allegra, decvax!ittvax, fisher, princeton}!eosp1!robison