New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 2, 1924, Page 4

B * FOR OTHER SEX § Shepand Gives Tnstances of | Such Usages (By James Shepard.) " 3t is well known to many persons there are a fewgChriktian names ‘which have been used somefime as a man’s name and sometimes as a wom- | @n's name without any variation in form. Only a few persons would ox- " pect to find more than a dozen of " Buch names. In the appendix to Webster's dictionary there is a list of mames of men and another list of |, women. Vivian is the only name wwhich appears in both lists without change 1n form. After much research I have compiled a list of sixty-six of C sugh names. Twenty-five of these I names are given in Webster's lists for | jmixer at work ne one sex only. t It 18 quite common to apply sub- |t " stantially the same name with a slight | t " ‘warlation in spelling to both male and | “The warrior prince of the heavenly | host” and Michael, the younger daughter of Saul. A few other ex- amples of similar, yet distinctive male and female names are as follows: | Abiel and Abi; Bela and Bula; Chester and Christina; Coral and Cora. | ! Elisha and Eliza; George and Geor- | gia; Joseph and Josephine; Julius | ¢ and Julia; Louis and L Norman il it nd Vietor ina and Cina. The name of Christian is g“wn by | Webster as a name for m+n only ‘while a modified form therof is given for women, In fact Christian was by | 0 means an uncommon °name for ‘women in the early days of Connecti ecut. In the index of men who served as soldiers from New York in the | 1 Revolutionary War, there are fourte men having Christian as a surname, | and two hundred and twenty men bhaving Christian as a given name, In preparing my list I discarded all pames used in the fiction and the drama, using only real names of per- sons who have lived, either in the past or present age. Each name has = been repeatedly used as a name for N one sex and also used once at least | &8 A name for the opposite sex, of these names, like Give thanks and | Bin—deny are now obsolete, but they were frequently used by the Puritans |, in the ecarly part of the seventeenth century. My readers will perhaps be be more surprised to learn that such 4 names ever existed at all, than they | jncomplete, will to learn that they have been ap- plied to both sexes. We have in Con- mecticut an example of odd names which were bestowed lesé than seven- ty years ago.. One Mr. Bill of Lyme mamed two sons from pharses which were largely in use during the early | days of the Free Soil party, One son ing on at Corners, posted, ‘ Road Conditions In Connecticut Southbury—Roxbury tr ridge, is still impassable, nt—Cornwall road. A shofel is at work on this road through travel is passing over the road without detours. Greenwich—Post road. phalt under construction from mond Hill to Sound Beach road. Traf ic is not being held up. Guilford—Saybrook post road. Con- crete being laid at Clinton and Guil- traffic at these point Grading go- Madison One wa cted by or dirs fic men. Saybrook, “linton, Briigeport to Shelton—One at work near E raffic at each of t hrough traffic should by all ak ger construction, short raffic. | ing. Westbrook-—Patcrogue river bridge | vnder construction on a cut-off. Traf- ic uses the old road. Easton—S8port Hill construction. ridge. bridge New Hartford—Nepaug road, work Traveling ler construction. | poor. Sharon—West Cornwall, :losed to traffic, Sharon-—Salisbury-Housatoniv river No detours | cad under construction. t present, Canaan—North Canaan-South Can- an road work will soon begin. Open or traffic. East Haddam-—Town street under construction, but is open to traffic. | ,'Stafford—Wales road under &truction, but is open to traffic. Stafford——Monson road under con- | struction, but is open to traffic, Suffield—From Thompsonville raad to State Line, road is under construe- ton, but is open to traffic. Mansfield—Depot road, S0me | ¢, med, open to traffic, Groton-——Baptist Hill, grading is be- ing done, short section rlosed. Detour posted. Groton—Cen@r Groton-Old road grading is being done, road open. Killingly Putnam—-Putnam Open to traffic. Hampton—Willimantic road work started, open to traffic. Groton--Noank-Groton Long Point road work started, detour posted. Pomfret—Pomfret*Abington work started. Waterford: road. avel is still passing over the road | formerly in use, without detours. The | open to \rafiic. abandoned road where we are grad- ’n.z with a steam shovel, near the new | road, grading being done, Sheet as; rdsley Park, another | One way ts, the river road to avoid delays. Seymour—Bladden river bridge un- detour pro- | vided around the bridge for vehicular Foot bridge for people walk- Traffic using the Cornwall bridge road, west side of the Housa- | tonic river, work under construction, work re- temporarily Detour ey NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERA'LD, FRIDAY, ing done, detour as posted. Road open at all times. East Lyme—Post road work start- | ed, open to traffic. 0ld Lyme—Post road, work started, | Pomfret Turnpike. Travel | open to- traffic. bridge. ¢ | Salem — Norwich-Hadlyme road, | The | 8rading being done; short detour. Salem — FEast Haddam-Norwich- Hadlyme road, grading being done, uses Special Notice |;arnern—Slorrl! Aoy open to| JFansfield TFour traffic. steam but | on the Winsted Turnpike, Passable at | St., Friday evening, May 2nd, all times. | New Hartford—=Shoulder work be-|speaker. ing done on the Winsted Turnpike, | welcome. Dia- and | mixer | All means under old STUFFY trolley. A delayed sched. ule. A hot, ill-natured crowd. 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