re: #122 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

There are two people in my town named James: Me, and a woman in her mid-twenties. Neither of us is an usurper.

We both insist on being called James (it is a girl’s name too, though not nearly as popular as it used to be). No Jimmy for me or Jamie for her.

It helps keep people here confused, in conversation one has to clarify which James you’re talking about.

English naming conventions—could be worse. The writer Evelyn Waugh married a woman named Evelyn. Their friends distinguished them as “He-Evelyn” and “She-Evelyn”.