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Sam Katz's avatar

A name is a name. Mine was a nickname I got when I was three. It stuck.

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ken taylor's avatar

i know. i am unclear why i have that failing . Maybe because I stuttererd and couldn't pronounce it (I don't believe it was feminine nor masculine) but i couldn't get my tongue around kentrolaphagat. My parents always continued to call me that, but for everyone else I quickly became ken. But i don't know what the connection would be

It bugs me, though I've known several women who go by "sam" , that I always make a misogynist assumption ii is male.

I have a grandson who was Ben but became Gwen and I have no problem with that, I have no problem with women being any name, and there is a trend towards unigender names---my issue, is with myself, and my continually making false assumptions.

But names are important, people do want their names spelled and pronounced correctly.

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