Re: I need your opinion...

Posted by Nick Kismet from ppp-23-pm1-beaverton.spiretech.com on June 10, 1999 at 23:25:32:

In Reply to: I need your opinion... posted by ROB T. on June 10, 1999 at 22:07:52:

: This weekend I had a disagreement with my mother and I need another opinion to back me up or to say I'm mistaken.
: Mom asserts that Marion Ravenwood's name is misspelled. She says MariOn is the masculine spelling and MariAn is the feminine. I say most people wouldn't make that distinction and would say that Marion is a womans name no matter how you spell it.
: The reason this is important is because I'm a man and my mother gave me Marion as a middle name. So all my life I've been mildly embarassed that I have a girl's middle name. It didn't help that when I was ten years old my sister Heather was born and Mom named her Heather Marian.
: She says the 'A' makes all the difference and I say it doesn't.

: This isn't a big, hairy deal or anything I'm just curious. Does everyone but my mother think of Marion as a girl's name?

: Be honest and candid. I've heard every joke there is about having a girls name.

Your mother is technically correct. Marion is the male version, though as near as I can tell, it is rarely given to males anymore.
Additionally, most of the Marion's (spelled -On) out there right now are women. The screenplay for Raiders has Marion R spelled that way, and I beleive that Mrs. Cunningham from Happy Days spelled her name Marion Ross.
And my researc shows that her character spelled her name Marion the same way.
However, the Duke, John Wayne's given name was Michael Marion Morrison, so take heart!

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: : This weekend I had a disagreement with my mother and I need another opinion to back me up or to say I'm mistaken.
: : Mom asserts that Marion Ravenwood's name is misspelled. She says MariOn is the masculine spelling and MariAn is the feminine. I say most people wouldn't make that distinction and would say that Marion is a womans name no matter how you spell it.
: : The reason this is important is because I'm a man and my mother gave me Marion as a middle name. So all my life I've been mildly embarassed that I have a girl's middle name. It didn't help that when I was ten years old my sister Heather was born and Mom named her Heather Marian.
: : She says the 'A' makes all the difference and I say it doesn't.

: : This isn't a big, hairy deal or anything I'm just curious. Does everyone but my mother think of Marion as a girl's name?

: : Be honest and candid. I've heard every joke there is about having a girls name.

: Your mother is technically correct.  Marion is the male version, though as near as I can tell, it is rarely given to males anymore.
: Additionally, most of the Marion's (spelled -On) out there right now are women.  The screenplay for Raiders has Marion R spelled that way, and I beleive that Mrs. Cunningham from Happy Days spelled her name Marion Ross.
: And my researc shows that her character spelled her name Marion the same way.
: However, the Duke, John Wayne's given name was Michael Marion Morrison, so take heart!

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