[Magdalen] Mardi Gras.

[Lynn Ronkainen]

Interesting Sibyl. My dad's name was Eugene and he was 1/2 Norwegian from MN. I'm wondering if that was a popular Scandinavian name? When he left home he was called by his last name by friends for the rest of his life - Tully. 
Lynn 

On Feb 28, 2017, at 9:55 PM, Sibyl Smirl <polycarpa3 at ckt.net> wrote:

> On 2/28/17 9:24 PM, ME Michaud wrote:
> This makes no sense to me but, of course, it's cultural.
> 
> I cannot imagine calling someone by a name that's not theirs.
> His first name is Youssef, not Tony.

Ever hear of nicknames?  He bought the nickname with the business, in this case, but I knew a lot of men when I was younger whose real first names I didn't know at all until I was adult and looking at the Farmer's Union accounts, and then never used them to call name.  We didn't use the title-firstname (or nickname) convention in my area, though. "Frenchy" Lawson even used his nickname on his election posters, and if I ever knew his real first name, I've forgotten it.  Then there was my uncle, who went by "Swede" among men, but his wasn't so firmly attached: I called him "Uncle Harry" or "Uncle Gene", and some called him "Harry Gene", real first and middle names (Eugene, actually, but for some reason he hated EUgene, and everybody respected that).  Then I knew several "Shorty"s, a couple of "Bud"s, and one "Red".


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